by Chang-rae Lee · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862073401
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«Gesture Life» is the novel by Chang-rae Lee, published by Granta Books in paperback (368 pages, in English).
A Japanese immigrant leads an orderly life in a New York suburb until his routine begins to crack. Memories take him back to his time as a Japanese army doctor in World War II and to his obsession with a young woman, one of the so-called comfort women, in a story about identity, guilt and memory.
For readers of literary and historical fiction with an interest in World War II, cultural identity and the Japanese-American experience.
Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.
