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A gesture life / Chang-rae Lee.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Chang-rae.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese Americans--Fiction.
- Japanese Americans.
- Comfort women.
- Psychic trauma.
- Koreans.
- Medical care.
- Japan.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Fiction.
- Koreans--Japan--Fiction.
- New York (State)--Fiction.
- New York (State).
- Psychic trauma--Fiction.
- Comfort women--Fiction.
- Adoptees--Fiction.
- Adoptees.
- Retirees--Fiction.
- Retirees.
- New York (N.Y)--Fiction.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 356 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 1999.
- Summary:
- The secret life of a Japanese-American pharmacist in a small town in New York. On the surface a model of propriety and serenity, he is torn by memories of his service in the Japanese army in World War II and the comfort woman he loved and could not save. By the author of Native Speaker.
- Notes:
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2000
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1573221465
- 9781573221467
- 1573228281
- 9781573228282
- OCLC:
- 41488613
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