{"id":336,"date":"2009-01-31T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=336"},"modified":"2015-12-15T22:53:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T03:53:35","slug":"the-piano-teacher-by-janice-yk-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-piano-teacher-by-janice-yk-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee [in Christian Science Monitor] [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/01\/Piano-Teacher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-29872\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/01\/Piano-Teacher.jpg\" alt=\"Piano Teacher\" width=\"940\" height=\"1419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/01\/Piano-Teacher.jpg 1838w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/01\/Piano-Teacher-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/01\/Piano-Teacher-800x1207.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a>Something about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janiceyklee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Janice Y.K. Lee<\/a>\u2019s debut novel,\u00a0<em>The Piano Teacher<\/em>, whispers, \u201cWatch me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Populated with a cast of \u201cwandering global voyagers,\u201d Lee unfurls her story, set in Hong Kong during and after World War II, layer by layer and in cinematic snippets. Captured in clipped, almost abbreviated language, <em>The Piano Teacher<\/em> paints vivid pictures in quick strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who is of Korean heritage, was born and raised in Hong Kong and educated at Harvard. She writes with a director\u2019s eye. Her timing is ingenious and controlled, and she knows exactly how much she\u2019s willing to reveal from one moment to the next.<\/p>\n<p>The eponymous piano teacher is Claire Pendleton, a newly arrived \u00e9migr\u00e9 and the provincial young wife of a British government engineer whom she married \u201cto escape the dark interior of her house, her bitter mother.\u201d She arrives in 1952 Hong Kong with myriad preconceived notions about the \u201cunscrupulous, conniving\u201d locals. But the city is nothing as she expected and she finds herself especially wide-eyed over the affluent Chinese, \u201cthe ones who seemed English in all but their skin color\u2026. She hadn\u2019t known that such worlds existed.\u201d &#8230;[<a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2009-01-31-piano-teacherprint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">click here for more<\/a>]\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/books\/2009\/01\/31\/the-piano-teacher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/books\/2009\/01\/31\/the-piano-teacher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">, January 31, 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/tbr-2009-05-06-apa-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something about Janice Y.K. Lee\u2019s debut novel,\u00a0The Piano Teacher, whispers, \u201cWatch me.\u201d Populated with a cast of \u201cwandering global voyagers,\u201d Lee unfurls her story, set in Hong Kong during and after World War II, layer by layer and in cinematic snippets. 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