num_pages: 324
description: Native Speaker is a story about a detective. It is also a wise and compassionate novel about the immigrant experience, about love, loyalty and the languages that define us.‘What makes Native Speaker an important novel is no more complicated than this: it tells us the truth. Lee writes in a voice free of political bias about race fears... He writers of the fear of dilution, or self-loss... After so much racist posing, so much false restraint, Native speaker seems like a new kind of novel, the plainsong of unassimilated man, and in the murmur of his nascent voice is the soft clash of borders.’ Literary Review
language: English
title: Native Speaker
titlecomplete: Native Speaker
genres: Asia, American, New York, Literary Fiction, Novels, Asian Literature, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 7994
places: New York City, New York, Flushing, Queens, New York
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Granta