A Gesture Life: A Novel Paperback - 2000
by Chang-rae Lee
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From the acclaimed author of "Native Speaker" comes his second novel about a Japanese World War II veteran who becomes a proper man and upstanding citizen in New York. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army and his obsessive love for a young comfort woman. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.
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- Title A Gesture Life: A Novel
- Author Chang-rae Lee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 10, 2000
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-C-08d-01780
- ISBN 9781573228282 / 1573228281
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.12 x 0.96 in (20.37 x 13.00 x 2.44 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1200
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects New York (State), Japanese Americans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99028382
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee.
His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. Now Chang-rae Lee has written a powerful and beautifully crafted second novel that leaves no doubt about the extraordinary depth and range of his talent.
A Gesture Life is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen who has come to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town. Courteous, honest, hardworking, and impenetrable, Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth, is careful never to overstep his boundaries and to make his neighbors comfortable in his presence. Yet as his story unfolds, precipitated by the small events surrounding him, we see his life begin to unravel. Gradually we learn the mystery that has shaped the core of his being: his terrible, forbidden love for a young Korean Comfort Woman when he served as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II.
In A Gesture Life, Chang-rae Lee leads us with dazzling control through a taut, suspenseful story about love, family, and community—and the secrets we harbor. As in Native Speaker, he writes of the ways outsiders conform in order to survive and the price they pay for doing so. It is a haunting, breathtaking display of talent by an acclaimed young author.
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- Entertainment Weekly, 10/06/2000, Page 78
- New York Times, 10/01/2000, Page 28
