Country of Origin: A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Don Lee is the author of the novels The Collective, Wrack and Ruin, and Country of Origin, and the story collection Yellow. He has received an American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, an O. Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Temple University and splits his time between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Klappentext Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sad, brutal reign of conformity." When she vanishes, Tom Hurley, who is half-Korean and half-white, is assigned to her case at the American embassy, as is local cop Kenzo Ota, who is 100 percent Japanese but deemed an outsider. Zusammenfassung A dazzling debut novel by the prize-winning author of Yellow! set in the unique and exotic nightworld of Tokyo.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: D. Lee, Don Lee
• Edition: Norton and Co Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 02.06.2005
• EAN: 9780393327069
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32706-9
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Fiction - Mystery / Detective