American Hagwon
Autor Min Jin Leeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 sep 2026
'Breathtaking ... I adored it'ELIF SHAFAK
'Masterful'DOUGLAS STUART
'Another future classic'GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko, returns with a breathtaking epic that follows one family as they reckon with personal dreams and familial duty.
John and Helen Koh and their three children - Bo, DH and Mido - are building new lives in Korea when they find their worlds upended, first by a terrible betrayal and then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Striving to regain their footing, the Kohs set out to do whatever it takes to provide for their children's futures.
They leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in California, where new opportunities open for the Koh children, as the parents, strangers in a strange land, adjust to a difficult existence in which their qualifications mean little. Their way forward is lit by the faith that education will lead the next generation to the success and security that have eluded their parents.
The Kohs, their friends, relatives and even their foes move in and out of each other's lives as they navigate love, work, fortune and fulfilment across the years. But with each new sacrifice and fresh horizon, larger questions begin to open up before them: what are we willing to give up to secure the happiness of the ones we love? What is the purpose of education? And what is truly important for a good life?
American Hagwon is the most ambitious and extraordinary work yet by one of our greatest novelists.
A most anticipated book of the year in Guardian, New York Times, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Independent, and more.
'One of the most important novelists of her generation'NEW YORK TIMES
'A sweeping, stirring, epic' iPAPER
'I will be thinking about this deeply affecting novel for a long time' NICOLA STURGEON, in OBSERVER
'A grand multigenerational saga from the best to ever do it' VOGUE AUSTRALIA
'Engrossing ... Brilliantly imagined'COLM TÓIBÍN, author of Long Island
'If your faith in either humanity or storytelling has dimmed, this will make it blaze again' KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of Best of Friends
'An absolute joy that you will take with you for the rest of your life' JOANNA CANNON, author of An Unlikely Visitor
'Extraordinary ... So rich and intricate that you forget you're reading'TARA WESTOVER, author of Educated
'A moving reflection on family, ambition and duty'MONOCLE
'An extraordinary diasporic quartet' HARPER'S BAZAAR
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781538786048
ISBN-10: 1538786044
Pagini: 1040
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 61 mm
Greutate: 1.07 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Cardinal
ISBN-10: 1538786044
Pagini: 1040
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 61 mm
Greutate: 1.07 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Cardinal
Notă biografică
Min Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko, a finalist for the National Book Award, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and a New York Times “100 Best Books of the Century.” She serves as the New York State Author Laureate from 2025 through 2027. She is the 2024 recipient of The Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence. Lee has received the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity from South Korea. She is the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She lives in Harlem with her family.
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"Min Jin Lee brings grand ambition, fierce heart, and the tenderest hope to a novel I didn't want to end." -Roxane Gay, bestselling hunger of Bad Feminist and Hunger
In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. 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 experience 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.
"An immersive, engrossing novel ... this is panorama told in brilliant detail." -Colm Tóibín, bestselling author of Long Island and Brooklyn
"Min Jin Lee brings grand ambition, fierce heart, and the tenderest hope to a novel I didn't want to end." -Roxane Gay, bestselling hunger of Bad Feminist and Hunger
In schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. 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 experience 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.
"An immersive, engrossing novel ... this is panorama told in brilliant detail." -Colm Tóibín, bestselling author of Long Island and Brooklyn