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The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee 9780349122977
Booksplease Price: £23.66June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able... -
On Such A Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee 9780349140148
Booksplease Price: £20.70On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping... -
Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee 9781573225311
Booksplease Price: £12.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Tender Age by Chang-rae Lee 9781398562950
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.54'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' Los Angeles Times'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.' Jhumpa Lahiri'Chang-rae... -
A Gesture Life: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee 9781573228282
Booksplease Price: £12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573228282Author Chang-rae LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
A Tender Age: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee 9798217048441
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217048441Author Chang-rae LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint -
A Tender Age: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee 9798217349265
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £20.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217349265Author Chang-rae LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
My Year Abroad: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee 9781594634581
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594634581Author Chang-rae LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
Understanding Chang-rae Lee by Amanda M. Page 9781611177824
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In Understanding Chang-rae Lee, Amanda M. Page provides the first critical survey of the work of one of America's most acclaimed contemporary novelists. Chang-rae Lee, the Ward W. and Priscilla B... -
A Study Guide for Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375385046
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375385046Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 60I -
21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past by Ruth Maxey 9783030418991
Booksplease Price: £46.88This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow,... -
The Prisoner: A Memoir by Hwang Sok-Yong 9781839760839
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.50In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his... -
Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities by M. Hurst 9781349292899
Booksplease Price: £46.28Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice... -
Granta 49: Money 9780140140880
Booksplease Price: £16.01Writers and photographers define what money means to them. The book includes pieces by: Richard Rayner, Steve Puke, Ian Hamilton, James Buchan, Kevin Jackson, Jonathon Raban, Chang-Rae Lee, Helen... -
Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities by M. Hurst 9780230110458
Booksplease Price: £46.74Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice... -
Reparations and the Human by David L. Eng 9781478031864
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invoked in graphic terms the specter of total human destruction. In response, a new international order of reparations and human rights... -
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.38A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and... -
Contested Terrain: Suburban Fiction and U.S. Regionalism, 1945-2020 by Keith Wilhite 9781609388577
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £66.49Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage... -
The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories by Caroline Kim
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.91Winner of the 2020 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Exploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora, Caroline Kim's stories feature many voices. From a teenage girl in 1980's America,... -
The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War by Daniel Y. Kim
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £58.16Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of... -
The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War by Daniel Y. Kim 9781479805365
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of... -
Lives in Two Languages: An Exploration of Identity and Culture by Linda Watkins-Goffman
Booksplease Price: £30.42Lives in Two Languages explores identity and multiculturalism through readings that aim to help teachers-in-training gain better insight into their students' lives.Lives in Two Languages focuses on... -
The Postethnic Literary: Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000 by Florian Sedlmeier 9783110373707
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £59.18The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized discursive... -
Maps: A Novel by Nuruddin Farah 9781628725858
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.92"Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events." Nadine Gordimer Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for... -
21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past by Ruth Maxey 9783030418960
Booksplease Price: £46.88This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow,... -
Divercity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age by Melanie Pooch
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £28.38Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon ("DiverCity"). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, "What We All Long... -
Lost in Transnation: Alternative Narrative, National, and Historical Visions of the Korean-American Subject in Select 20th-Century Korean American Novels by David S. Cho 9781433112720
RRP: £80.10Booksplease Price: £70.98This volume examines the engagement with national histories, citizenship, and the larger transnational contexts in the narrative plot lines in selected twentieth-century Korean American novels... -
Postmodern Suburban Spaces: Philosophy, Ethics, and Community in Post-War American Fiction by Joseph George 9783319410050
Booksplease Price: £81.46This book reevaluates fiction devoted to the postwar American suburb, examining the way these works imagine suburbia as a communal structure designed to advance a particular American identity... -
Bilingual Brokers: Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital by Jeehyun Lim 9780823275311
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the focus on cultural assimilation to that of resource... -
Postmodern Suburban Spaces: Philosophy, Ethics, and Community in Post-War American Fiction by Joseph George 9783319822396
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book reevaluates fiction devoted to the postwar American suburb, examining the way these works imagine suburbia as a communal structure designed to advance a particular American identity... -
Asian American War Stories: Trauma and Healing in Contemporary Asian American Literature by Jeffrey Tyler Gibbons 9781032369983
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Asian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the long-term effects of war, trauma, and displacement on civilians, as well as the... -
Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature by Caroline Chamberlin Hellman 9780813943596
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.92Taking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman's new... -
Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature by Caroline Chamberlin Hellman 9780813943602
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £11.46Taking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman's new... -
Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave by Yoonmee Chang 9780813548012
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £36.94In the United States, perhaps no minority group is considered as "model" or successful as the Asian American community. Rather than living in ominous "ghettoes," Asian Americans are described as... -
Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique by Kandice Chuh 9780822331049
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71Imagine Otherwise is an incisive critique of the field of Asian American studies. Recognizing that the rubric "Asian American" elides crucial differences, Kandice Chuh argues for reframing Asian... -
Coming Of Age Around The World: A Multicultural Anthology by Faith Adiele 9781595580801
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The editors of this anthology have set out to chronicle the global quest for identity, making a strong case for the personal and political importance of sharing our stories as they consider whether... -
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice by Douglas Mao
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present,... -
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice by Douglas Mao 9780691212302
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £92.98A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae LeeExamining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present,... -
Intersecting Diasporas: Italian Americans and Allyship in US Fiction by Suzanne Manizza Roszak 9781438481623
RRP: £25.51Booksplease Price: £22.31Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.Intersecting Diasporas examines literary expressions of... -
Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots by Min Hyoung Song 9780822335924
Booksplease Price: £33.97Sometime near the start of the 1990s, the future became a place of national decline. The United States had entered a period of great anxiety fueled by the shrinking of the white middle class, the...