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Chang-rae Lee

Biography

Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee is the author of NATIVE SPEAKER, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, as well as MY YEAR ABROAD, ON SUCH A FULL SEA, A GESTURE LIFE, ALOFT and THE SURRENDERED, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A 2021 winner of the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.

Chang-rae Lee

Books by Chang-rae Lee

by Chang-rae Lee - Fiction

Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong and of himself. The narrative alternates between Tiller’s outlandish, mind-boggling year with Pong and the strange, riveting, emotionally complex domestic life that follows it, as Tiller processes what happened to him abroad and what it means for his future.

by Chang-rae Lee - Fiction

In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan’s journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind.

by Chang-rae Lee - Fiction

Henry Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American --- a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets.