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Free Food for Millionaires

Autor Min Jin Lee
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2018
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST PACHINKO

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In her critically acclaimed debut, National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee introduces the indelible Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants who is addicted to a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she cannot afford. Fresh out of Princeton with an economics degree, no job, and a popular white boyfriend, Casey is determined to carve a space for herself in the glittering world she craves-but at what cost?

Lee's bestselling, sharp-eyed, sweeping epic of love, greed, and hunger-set in a landscape where millionaires scramble for the free lunches the poor are too proud to accept-is an addictively readable, startlingly sympathetic portrait of intergenerational strife and immigrant struggle, exposing the intricate layers of a community clinging to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538714850
ISBN-10: 153871485X
Pagini: 624
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing

Notă biografică

Min Jin Lee is a recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation (2018) and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2018-2019). Her novelPachinko(2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and one of theNew York Times' "Ten Best Books of 2017." ANew York Timesbestseller,Pachinkowas also one of the "Ten Best Books" of the year for BBC and the New York Public Library, and a "best international fiction" pick for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In total, it was on over seventy-five best books of the year lists, including NPR, PBS, and CNN, and it was a selection for Now Read This,the joint book club ofPBS NewsHourand theNew York Times.Pachinkowill be translated into twenty-seven languages. Lee's debut novelFree Food for Millionaires(2007) was one of the best books of the year for theTimesof London, NPR'sFresh Air, andUSA Today, and it was a national bestseller. Her writings have appeared in theNew Yorker, NPR'sSelected Shorts,One Story,theNew York Review of Books,theNew York Times Magazine,theNew York Times Book Review,theTimes Literary Supplement,theGuardian, CondéNast Traveler,theTimesof London,and theWall Street Journal.Lee served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of theChosun Ilboof South Korea. In 2018, she was named as one of Adweek's Creative 100 for being one of the "ten writers and editors who are changing the national conversation," and one of theGuardian's Frederick Douglass 200. She received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Monmouth College. She will be a Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College from 2019-2022.

Recenzii

"Mesmerizing...Not since Jhumpa Lahiri'sThe Namesakehas an author so exquisitely evoked what it's like to be an immigrant."—--USA Today
"This big, beguiling book has all the distinguishing marks of a Great American novel."—--The Times (London)
"Lee has updated the Victorian novel of progress to a postmodern, postfeminist world and imagined a character whose circumstances feel universal."—--Chicago Tribune