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Tiller is an average college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations and talents. Then he meets Pong Lou, a successful Chinese American businessman, and everything changes. With Pong's unmatched charisma, richly varied interests and skills, enviable resources, and loyal circle of friends and business partners, he represents a life that Tiller has never imagined. When Pong invites Tiller along on a boisterous trip across Asia with no return ticket, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to luxury globetrotter. In the process, he's pulled into a series of wholly unexpected experiences-some humorous, some heartbreaking, some darkly shocking, and all of which will alter the course of his life.
A year later, passing through an American airport on his way home from this Asian adventure, Tiller takes up with an unlikely older woman and her son, and quickly slips from one life to another as he processes all he's experienced and what it will mean for his future. Told in alternating storylines, Tiller's tale weaves back and forth between his outlandish, memorable year with Pong, and the domestic adulthood that replaces it.
From an award-winning writer known for exploring issues of culture and identity with provocative originality, My Year Abroad is a bold and exciting new novel about the people we meet who change our lives forever, and a brilliant satire/fable about entrepreneurship and the American dream.
Tiller is an average college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations and talents. Then he meets Pong Lou, a successful Chinese American businessman, and everything changes. With Pong's unmatched charisma, richly varied interests and skills, enviable resources, and loyal circle of friends and business partners, he represents a life that Tiller has never imagined. When Pong invites Tiller along on a boisterous trip across Asia with no return ticket, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to luxury globetrotter. In the process, he's pulled into a series of wholly unexpected experiences-some humorous, some heartbreaking, some darkly shocking, and all of which will alter the course of his life.
A year later, passing through an American airport on his way home from this Asian adventure, Tiller takes up with an unlikely older woman and her son, and quickly slips from one life to another as he processes all he's experienced and what it will mean for his future. Told in alternating storylines, Tiller's tale weaves back and forth between his outlandish, memorable year with Pong, and the domestic adulthood that replaces it.
From an award-winning writer known for exploring issues of culture and identity with provocative originality, My Year Abroad is a bold and exciting new novel about the people we meet who change our lives forever, and a brilliant satire/fable about entrepreneurship and the American dream.
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR: All six of Chang-rae Lee's books have received enormous critical acclaim and awards. Lee was selected by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Writers for the 21st Century." He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Asian-American Literary Award, the Dayton Peace Prize, the B&N Discover Award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, among others.
A NOVELIST FOR OUR TIMES: Chang-rae Lee continues to earn recognition for his sharply observed critical take on contemporary culture. MY YEAR ABROAD is at once funny, profound, and moving as it explores contemporary ideas of culture, capitalism, racial stereotypes, East - West divisions, upward mobility, and mental health.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 496 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781594634574 |
| ISBN-10: | 1594634572 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Lee, Chang-rae |
| Besonderheit: | Unsere Aufsteiger |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Maße: | 237 x 165 x 42 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Chang-rae Lee |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.02.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,699 kg |
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR: All six of Chang-rae Lee's books have received enormous critical acclaim and awards. Lee was selected by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Writers for the 21st Century." He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Asian-American Literary Award, the Dayton Peace Prize, the B&N Discover Award, and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, among others.
A NOVELIST FOR OUR TIMES: Chang-rae Lee continues to earn recognition for his sharply observed critical take on contemporary culture. MY YEAR ABROAD is at once funny, profound, and moving as it explores contemporary ideas of culture, capitalism, racial stereotypes, East - West divisions, upward mobility, and mental health.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 496 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781594634574 |
| ISBN-10: | 1594634572 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Lee, Chang-rae |
| Besonderheit: | Unsere Aufsteiger |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Maße: | 237 x 165 x 42 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Chang-rae Lee |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.02.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,699 kg |
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