| International Standard Book Number |
9781538752043 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781538785881 (international trade paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781538752036 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1538752034 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Lee, Min Jin, author.
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| Title Statement |
American hagwon / Min Jin Lee.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Cardinal, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
644 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children--Bo, DH, and Mido--find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John's oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California--where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experiences and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children's futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other's lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security. In American Hagwon, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable panoramic novel where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions, where the bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break, and where willful self-sacrifice--for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers--is a kind of prayer"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Korean Americans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Emigration and immigration Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
College students Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Tutors and tutoring Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Financial crises Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Korea (South) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Australia Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
California Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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