Five More to Go: Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police [in The Booklist Reader]
13 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese, Korean, Korean American, Lists, Repost, Translation
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and translated by Stephen Snyder Without names, these people, this island, could be anyone, anywhere. As fantastical as the premise of her latest anglophoned novel seems, Yoko Ogawa (The Housekeeper and the Professor, 2009) intends exactly that universality. Initially, small things disappeared...
Flying Aloft with Chang-rae Lee
Speaking in superlatives about Chang-rae Lee or his work seems somewhat clichéd these days. All three of his novels, Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and his latest, Aloft, have been so lavishly...
The Easiest Thing to Do Is Stop Writing
Having just returned from Italy where he got a little R&R and did some research on his next novel, Chang-rae Lee didn’t even have time to recover...
Korean American Henry Park is a spy whose life is falling apart: his wife just left him, his son died tragically, he has yet to make peace with his dead father. He’s assigned to...