Full name: The Foreign Student: A Novel

Author: Susan Choi Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060929275 0060929278

Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Student is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation. Moving between the American South and South Korea, between an adolescent girl's sexual awakening and a young man's nightmarish memories of war, The Foreign Student is a powerful and emotionally gripping work of fiction. Similar books: Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee The Interpreter by Suki Kim Cleopatra's Sister by Penelope Lively You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol Oates The Cryptographer by Tobias Hill The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey The Rise & Fall Of Great Powers by Tom Rachman Marry Me by John Updike Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy A Reckoning by May Sarton Mickelsson's Ghosts by John Gardner Air And Angels by Susan Hill Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult