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The Foreign Student

A Novel

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The Foreign Student

Written by: Susan Choi
Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
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Highly acclaimed by critics, The Foreign Student is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family.

In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation. Moving between the American South and South Korea, between an adolescent girl’s sexual awakening and a young man’s nightmarish memories of war, The Foreign Student is a powerful and emotionally gripping work of fiction.

©2009 Susan Choi (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature War Student Imperial Japan
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Intersecting lives, temptations succumbed to, repeating patterns, fate and turning points run through this book. I found it a bit hard to get to know and like the characters, but they grew on me. Great insight into Korean history. Well written.

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