Native speaker

3.7 avg 9402 votes 955 reviews 18166 want to read

About this book

Korean-American Henry Park is a "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, yellow peril: neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor, spy ..." or so says his wife, in the list she writes upon leaving him. Henry is forever uncertain of his place, a perpetual outsider looking at American culture from a distance. As a man of two worlds, he is beginning to fear that he has betrayed both -- and belongs to neither.

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3.7/5 · 9402 readers · 336 pages · ≈ 6 h 13 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read Native speaker?

About ≈ 6 h 13 m — 336 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mNative speaker~6 h 13 m

How many pages is Native speaker?

336 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320Native speaker336

What genre is Native speaker?

It sits on the Spy Fiction, Fiction shelves.

Is Native speaker in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote Native speaker?

Chang-rae Lee (1965–0).

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