Korean American Books

Summaries and reviews of fiction and nonfiction books by Korean American authors,
books about Korean Americans and Korea, and Korean literature in English translation,
including some academic works and a sampling on the Korean War

Thursday, September 18, 2008

The Foreign Student, by Susan Choi


Well-formed prose with good depth of characters and original descriptions. A love story of a rich white girl and Korean boy. He's a war survivor, torture survivor, in a deep south college town in the 1950s.

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