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The Foreign Student

bySusan Choi

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Tennessee, 1955. When Chuck Ahn arrives in Sewanee to begin his studies at the University of the South, he is shy and speaks English haltingly. On the subject of his earlier life in Korea, he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine Monroe, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by a dark episode in her past.

Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation…

Richly detailed . . . Moving from the present to the past, from America to Korea, Choi brings hundreds of small scenes to life

New York Times Book Review

About Susan Choi

Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lambda Literary Award. Her fifth novel, Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction – and was a US bestseller. Flashlight began as a short story and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award in 2021. Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781529960617
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Price: £5.99
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