East Goes West - Younghill Kang

One Of The Atlantic S Great American Novels Of The Past 100 Years A Wonderfully Resplendent Evocation Of A Newcomer S Americardquo; (chang-rae Lee, Author Of Native Speaker ) By The Father Of Korean American Literature A Penguin Classic 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 York Teeming With Expatriates, Businessmen, Students, Scholars, And Indigents. Struggling To Support His Studies, He Travels Throughout The United States And Canada, Becoming By Turns A Traveling Salesman, A Domestic Worker, And A Farmer, And Observing Along The Way The Idealism, Greed, And Shifting Values Of The Industrializing Twentieth Century. Part Picaresque Adventure, Part Shrewd Social Commentary, East Goes West Casts A Sharply Satirical Eye On The Demands And Perils Of Assimilation.