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A Gesture Life

Chang-Rae Lee

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#1856 of 8,085 books · #879 in Fiction

Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2000).

The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper, decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army in World War II, and his obsessive love of a young comfort woman.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9788959242573
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Immigrant identityWar trauma and memoryObsessive love

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