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Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. The New Yorker called it "an auspicious debut, " and the Los Angeles Times touted it as "a novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness, " naming it one of the ten best books of the year. American Woman, this gifted writer's second book, is a novel of even greater scope and dramatic complexity, about a young Japanese-American radical...

Ausgezeichnet mit dem National Book Award Sarah und David gehören zu den Auserwählten, die an der Elite-Schauspielschule CAPA angenommen werden. Was sie dort erwartet, ist ein Kampf um Anerkennung, in dem alle Mittel erlaubt scheinen. Freundschaft, Liebe, Sex und Macht: Vertrauensübung ist ein intensiver Roman, der mutmaßliche Wahrheiten erdrutschartig mit sich reißt. »Geradezu bewusstseinserweiternd.« New York Magazine

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts, " two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic...

WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'Will leave you shaken to your very core' CosmopolitanNAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, Economist, BBC Radio 4's Open Book, Time Magazine, Elle Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Marie Claire, Kirkus Reviews, Washington Post , Chicago Tribune, Book Riot, Chicago Tribune, NPR, Slate and New Yorker.Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthood. They...

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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 ...

A novel of impressive scope and complexity, American Woman is a thoughtful, meditative interrogation of...history and politics, of power and racism, and finally, of radicalism (San Francisco Chronicle), perfect for readers who love Emma Cline's novel, The Girls.On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former ra...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'This witty, sharp, unsettling novel grabs you and won't let you go.' Dana SpiottaNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2019 by Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, Electric Literature, The Millions, PopSugar, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Publisher's Weekly, Lit Hub, Bustle, and The Huffington PostSarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge of adulthoo...

As captivating and tender as it is brilliantly surprising, Trust Exercise will not only incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, about friendships and loyalties, but also leave readers with wise impressions about the capacities of adolescents and the powers and responsibilities of adults.

Imagination meets reality in this poetic and tender ode to growing up by Pulitzer Prize finalist Choi, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Rocco. Full color.

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WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BESTSELLER"Electrifying" (People) . "Masterly" (The Guardian) . "Dramatic and memorable" (The New Yorker) . "Magic" (TIME) . "Ingenious" (The Financial Times) . "A gonzo literary performance" (Entertainment Weekly) . "Rare and splendid" (The Boston Globe) . "Remarkable" (USA Today) . "Delicious" (The New York Times) . "Book groups, meet your next selection" (NPR)In an American suburb i...

When a mail bomb goes off in the office of a hotshot computer scientist next door, math professor Lee is slow to realize that students and colleagues have begun to suspect that hes the elusive Brain Bomber. As he tries to exonerate himself, he must examine the extremes of his own life and the failings of his past.

My Education is a classic coming-of-age novel with a delicious twist - one of the most intoxicating stories of erotic obsession fused with literary style to emerge in a long time.

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 ...

On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell.A thought-provoking meditation on...

Regina Gottlieb had been warned about ProfessorNicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigiousuniversity high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office whileundergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of thewomen's restroom and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one warned Reginaabout his exceptional physical beautyor his charismatic, volatile wife. My Education ...

Regina Gottlieb had been warned about ProfessorNicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigiousuniversity high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office whileundergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of thewomen's restroom and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one warned Reginaabout his exceptional physical beautyor his charismatic, volatile wife. My Education ...

Regina Gottlieb had been warned about ProfessorNicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigiousuniversity high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office whileundergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of thewomen's restroom and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one warned Reginaabout his exceptional physical beautyor his charismatic, volatile wife. My Education ...

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