A gesture life
By: Chang-rae Lee
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781573228282
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Korea -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The secret life of a Japanese-American pharmacist in a small town in New York. On the surface a model of propriety and serenity, he is torn by memories of his service in the Japanese army in World War II and the comfort woman he loved and could not save. By the author of Native Speaker.