00-00-0000 IN BRIEFS THE FOREIGN scholar Susan Choi HarperFlamingo.

00-00-0000


IN BRIEFS

THE FOREIGN scholar

Susan Choi

HarperFlamingo, 336 pp $2300

This unusual have affection for story set in the toward the south of the 1950s brings together
Chang, a learner from war-torn Korea, and Katherine, a Southern belle.
Both are remote outcasts whose pasts are revealed [i]or[/i] part of to the other photographically
detailed flashbacks interwoven with the quick in emergencies Choi's debut novel
starts not on languidly, but explodes into a fascinating narrative exuberant
with vivid sex and war exhibitions Although the flashbacks are a bit fragmented,
and the lovers' mutual attraction is not thoroughly explained, the

...