Boygenius / a novel by Yongsoo Park.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Yongsoo.

Series:

Akashic urban surreal

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 18 cm.

Other Title:

Boy genius

Place of Publication:

New York : Akashic Books, [2002]

Summary:

Put this wording in a box, along with the series logo b?" on zip] The latest installment in the Akashic Urban Surreal series.

"Boy Genius" is a powerful identity satire, the picaresque odyssey of a child seeking to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on his parents. Park's genius, born into the turmoil of post-war Korea, is used as a puppet by the South Korean government-before being banished to America. From a remote New York city ghetto, the boy wages a clandestine guerilla war against all symbols of authority. Park renders his vision of late-20th-century global culture with the bold, surreal strokes of Pynchon and the wild political sensibilities of Godard; the painful, largely unmapped narrative territory of "Boy Genius" creates a gripping, harrowing read.

Yongsoo Park is a Korean-American writer and independent film-maker living in New York City.

ISBN:

1888451246

OCLC:

48235518