Thriller set on the ESSEX Coast
Native Speaker
Location(s): New York City (NYC)
Genre(s): Thriller, Political
Era(s): Modern
Another page-turner in the espionage thriller fold, the Native Speaker is the debut novel and political thriller book by Korean-American writer Chang-Rae Lee.
While the political espionage theme in this fabulous novel functions as much as a metaphor than a plot-twist, it reveals the inner struggles and identity crisis an outsider, a non-native born citizen, endures while trying to assimilate into American life.
The novel follows the life of Henry Park, an undercover agent employed by a disreputable private intelligence company, to infiltrate a political campaign. The internal conflict Park undergoes as he becomes unmoored from his native and adopted culture, his wife, his world, haunt the narrative.
Though a top political thriller, Native Speaker has won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel, the Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers Award, and the Dayton Peace Prize.
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