East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee / Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; af...
East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee / Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; af...
East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee / Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; afterword by Sunyoung Lee.
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[New York] : Penguin Books, 2019.
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G 2020/2727
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English
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xxxviii, 389 pages ; 20 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
[New York] : Penguin Books, 2019.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2019.
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"Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout th...
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East goes West : the making of an oriental Yankee / Younghill Kang ; foreword by Alexander Chee ; afterword by Sunyoung Lee.
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G 2020/2727
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74VKadPJ8odl
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ISBN
9780143134305 paperback
0143134302 paperback
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813.52
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991024317387402626
