East Goes West

"A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer's America" (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 New 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. It is a masterpiece not only of Asian American literature but also of American literature. Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these three Penguin Classics: America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039) East Goes West by Younghill Kang (9780143134305) The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang (9780143134022)

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Chee, Younghill Kang, Kang Younghill, Sunyoung Lee
• Assisted by: Alexander Chee (Foreword), Chee Alexander (Foreword), Sunyoung Lee (Afterword)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780143134305
• ISBN: 978-0-14-313430-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Social issues, United States of America, USA, Biographical fiction, Relating to Asian American people