East Goes West

One of  The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer ’ s America” (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker ) by the father of Korean American literature A Penguin Classic Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, stu