by Chang-rae Lee · Granta Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781862074019
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«A Gesture Life» is the literary fiction novel by Chang-rae Lee, published by Granta Books in paperback (356 pages, in English).
Franklin Hata, a Korean raised in Japan, is a stranger in an American community and relates through gestures of courtesy. His adopted daughter, Sunny, tries to break that reserve; his past as a Japanese army doctor in World War II and his love for a young Korean woman forced to serve the troops sexually come to the surface.
Second novel by Chang-rae Lee, originally published in 1999. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in memory, identity, and the aftermath of World War II.
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.
