A Gesture Life
By Chang-rae Lee
By Chang-rae Lee
By Chang-rae Lee
By Chang-rae Lee
By Chang-rae Lee
Read by Greg Watanabe
By Chang-rae Lee
Read by Greg Watanabe
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$23.00
Oct 01, 2000 | ISBN 9781573228282
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Oct 01, 2000 | ISBN 9781101660041
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Apr 17, 2018 | ISBN 9780525638858
744 Minutes
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Praise
“A beautiful, solitary, remarkably tender book.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A Gesture Life is the touching, multilayered rumination of an uneasy psyche. It is also a tragic, horrifying page-turner, whose evocation of wartime victims is unforgettable…A deeply involving tale, no less so because we realize, almost from the first chapter, that we can’t trust Hata’s version of events. [Lee] enlists the reader’s full energies to interpret this enigmatic speaker, who saddens, baffles and unfuriates us all at once.”—Chicago Tribune
“Once again, this gifted young author has given us a beautifully tapestried story of seeking identity and acceptance in another culture while remaining separate from the tug of it.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“Lee elegantly creates suspense out of the seemingly static story of a man trying hard not to feel. He has written a wise and humane novel that both amplifies the themes of identity and exile he addressed in Native Speaker, and creates a wonderfully resonant portrait of a man caught between two cultures and two lives.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Awards
ALA Notable Book WINNER
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WINNER
Asian American Literary Award WINNER
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award WINNER
New York Times Notable Book WINNER
New Yorker Book Award WINNER
North Atlantic Independent Book Award WINNER
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