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The Foreign Student: A Novel Audiobook
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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 haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation. Moving between the American South and South Korea, between an adolescent girl’s sexual awakening and a young man’s nightmarish memories of war, The Foreign Student is a powerful and emotionally gripping work of fiction.
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“Epic in its harrowing accounts of war and intimate in its charged descriptions of the unlikely love affair at its center.”
— New Yorker
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“Susan Choi writes gracefully, insightfully, and with striking maturity.”
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“Elegantly wrought.”
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“Richly detailed…Moving from the present to the past, from America to Korea, Choi brings hundreds of small scenes to life.”
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“A novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness.”
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“Resonates with compassion-turned-ardor and an addictive melancholy vibrating beneath every line.”
— Houston Chronicle
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Winner of the 1999 Asian American Literary Award
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A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection
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An Electric Literature Pick of Books That Celebrate International Scholars
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About Susan Choi
Susan Choi is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Trust Exercise, which won the National Book Award. Her work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award and the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction.
About Daniel K. Isaac
Daniel K. Isaac was born on December 5, 1988 in Fullerton, California. He is an actor and writer, known for Billions, Money Monster, and Too Big to Fail.