Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Classics, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780143134305
Published: July 2019
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Page Extent: 384
Format: Paperback
RRP 410.00

East Goes West

Younghill Kang

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Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, Chungpa Han arrives in New York. Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout the United States and Canada, observing the idealism, greed and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century.

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Younghill Kang

Younghill Kang

Younghill Kang (1903-1972) was born in what is now North Korea and emigrated to the US in his late teens. While teaching English at New York University, he was introduced by fellow professor, Thomas Wolfe, to Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins, who would publish Kang's books. Kang was the first Asian to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.

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