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Henry Park, a Korean-American private spy, is challenged by a new assignment to investigate a rising politician, but the secrets he uncovers threaten his cultural identity and his relationship with his wife. Reprint.

Korean-American Henry Park is "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, Yellow peril: neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor, spy ..." or so says his wife, in the list she writes upon leaving him. Henry is forever uncertain of his place, a perpetual outsider looking at American culture from a distance. As a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both -- and belongs to neither.

Reviews

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-04-15
Summary: "Henry Park is annoying, whiney, wimpy, immoral, tedious, effeminate"

I would agree with the reviews that Chang-Rae is a talented writer, and I enjoy his writing style, but I could barely stand his protagonist and narrator, Henry Park. I am not giving away the ending here, when I simply tell you that the dude is a jerk, and he's annoying, and he's wishy-washy effeminate, and I would like to punch people like him. Yes, there are many novels out there with imperfect, anti-hero, even untrustworthy narrators, but I'm pretty sure Chang-Rae feels warmth and sympathy for Henry Park and is trying to use him to expose his own issues with being Korean-American. I would hope one issue is not being an annoying, selfish moron. It felt like reading the logs of some Nazi concentration camp guard. Oh, I'm having problems at home, I don't understand my father, I don't really fit in here because I'm Austrian, and hang on a sec while I put another Jew in the oven. I have no sympathy for Henry Park. He seems to represent the worst stereoypes of Asian: confused, judgmental, whiney, effeminate, hypocritical, double-faced, untrustworthy, unexpressive, cold, wimpy. And all the other Koreans in the book are caricatures and stereotypes. Henry's wife is the only sympathetic character and you wonder what she finds in Henry except maybe a child-boy Asian stereotype.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-09-13
Summary: "Masterful"

As a writer, I was awed by the skill with which this author told his story. One of the most masterfully written stories I've ever read. Dana Bagshaw

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-05-22
Summary: "Still no Ha Jin"

I liked this book although A Gesture Life is still the novel of Chang-Rae Lee I like the best.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-12-09
Summary: "incisive and elegant"

This is one of the best books I have read to date. I'm not Korean/KA, and I've never been to New York, so I have no idea how well the characters represent either of these facets of America, and don't much care. I read this book and tried to appreciate its narrator and setting as unique rather than metaphorical or archetypal. I found the prose to be exceptionally incisive and elegant in places; in fact sometimes the narrative was so intense for me that it was exhausting. The narrator felt very realistic in that no matter how introspective he became, part of him always seemed to remain a mystery to himself, and Lee does not condescend to the reader or brutalize the prose by spelling it all out. The only other author I've read who can write characters that are both unusually self-analytical and blithely (and realistically) un-self-aware is Haruki Murakami (though the style of the writing is totally different).

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2008-08-16
Summary: "A Missed Opportunity"

This book is a missed opportunity. Everything about the Korean-American lifestyle is touching and often moving. The main character's father and mother, the ahjumma, and his Caucasian wife are all vivid characters. The problem I have with this book is that the spy aspect of the novel simply doesn't fit in. Lee does a good job trying to work the spy stuff into the book, but I think he ultimately fails in the end in this particular aspect. There are many excellent, poetic sentences in this book that choked me up, but there's also some lazy writing towards the end of the novel, in which there are many incomplete sentences and quotes are not accompanied by quotation marks. This type of writing is very common nowadays, but shouldn't be; it really takes away from the overall beauty of the English language and is not grammatical, either. If you want to learn about Korean-Americans, there are probably much better books out there, but this is by no means a bad read. I simply think that if the spy element were eliminated, the book would have been much more believable, though, Jack, a great character, would have to be placed in the novel in some other fashion. I bought this book at Incheon International Airport in South Korea for roughly twenty dollars, before flying back to America.