East Goes West

<b><b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>'s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b> <p/>A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer<b>'</b>s America (Chang-rae Lee author of <i>Native Speaker</i>) by the father of Korean American literature <p/>A Penguin Classic</b> <p/>Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name the young idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates businessmen students scholars and indigents. Struggling to support his studies he travels throughout the United States and Canada becoming by turns a traveling salesman a domestic worker and a farmer and observing along the way the idealism greed and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century. Part picaresque adventure part shrewd social commentary <i>East Goes West</i> casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation. It is a masterpiece not only of Asian American literature but also of American literature. <p/><b>Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month with these three Penguin Classics: </b> <p/> <i>America Is in the Heart </i>by Carlos Bulosan (9780143134039)<br> <i>East Goes West </i>by Younghill Kang (9780143134305)<br> <i>The Hanging on Union Square </i>by H. T. Tsiang (9780143134022)