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ISBN: 9780593332535
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2021
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Pages: 496
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A manifesto to happiness-the one found when you stop running from who you are." -New York Times Book Review
"An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements-and this is a book thatmoves...My Year Abroadis a wild ride-a caper, a romance, a bildungsroman, and something of a satire of how to get filthy rich in rising Asia."-Vogue
From the award-winning author ofNative SpeakerandOn Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure - and about the human capacities for pleasure, pain, and connection.
Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protege, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself.
In the breathtaking, "precise, elliptical prose" that Chang-rae Lee is known for (TheNew York Times), the narrative al
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ISBN: 9780593332535
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2021
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Pages: 496
Description:
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A manifesto to happiness-the one found when you stop running from who you are." -New York Times Book Review
"An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements-and this is a book thatmoves...My Year Abroadis a wild ride-a caper, a romance, a bildungsroman, and something of a satire of how to get filthy rich in rising Asia."-Vogue
From the award-winning author ofNative SpeakerandOn Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure - and about the human capacities for pleasure, pain, and connection.
Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protege, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself.
In the breathtaking, "precise, elliptical prose" that Chang-rae Lee is known for (TheNew York Times), the narrative al
This product has FREE shipping however combined shipping for other products is not available with this item. Please allow up to 10 days for shipping.
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