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ISbN 978-0-14-312293-7 $15.00 ($16.00 CAN)
Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 224 pp. Rights: E30
Pub history: Viking hc 978-0-670-02325-7
On sale: 12/24/2012
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“ Lee conveys the feeling that something
urgent and profound is at stake beyond
the lives of these striving, damaged, and
unforgettable characters.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“ Lee is well on her way to a promising
literary career.” —NPR
“ Has shades of Jhumpa Lahiri . . . recalls
Alice Munro. . . . A textured, knowing
and brilliant debut.”
—The Kansas City Star
Drifting House
Krys Lee
Set in Korea and the United States from the postwar era
to contemporary times, Krys Lee’s stunning fiction debut
illuminates a people struggling to reconcile the turmoil of their
collective past with the rewards and challenges of their present.
Amid the famine in North Korea, the financial crisis of South
Korea, and the cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls of
the United States, Krys Lee’s vivid and luminous tales speak to the
political and financial hardships of life in Korea and the uniquely
unmoored immigrant experience.
In the tradition of Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker and Jhumpa
Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, Drifting House is an unforgettable
work exploring love, identity, war, and the homes we make for
ourselves, by a dazzling new writer.
n For fans of Chang-rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alice Munro, and Nam Le
n Krys Lee’s second book, the novel How I Became a North Korean, will
be published by Viking in Winter 2014
n Visit kryslee.com
kRys lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in
California and Washington. Her work has appeared in Granta (New
Voices), Narrative, Kenyon Review, and the Guardian (London),
among other publications. She divides her time between Seoul and
San Francisco, California.
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