Native Speaker (novel)

Native Speaker
AuthorChang-Rae Lee
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary fiction
PublisherRiverhead Books
Publication date
1995
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages368 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN978-1573225311
OCLC38863471

Native Speaker (1995), author Chang-Rae Lee's debut novel, explores the life of a Korean-American man named Henry Park as he navigates his marriage and career as a spy. Native Speaker explores the themes of language, identity, and assimilation as an Asian-American, and reflects elements of literary fiction and spy thrillers.[1] The novel won the 1996 PEN/Hemingway award for Best First Novel and is the first novel by a Korean-American author to be published by a major American company, Riverhead Books.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Between Genres: On Chang-rae Lee's Realism". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2014-01-10. Retrieved 2024-09-22.
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  3. ^ Yang, June Unjoo (Mar 31, 1995). "Native Speaker". A. Magazine.