by Jean Pavans · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020562348
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«Les Sombres feux du passé» is the novel by Chang-Rae Lee published by Points in paperback (399 pages, in French).
The "doctor" Hata runs a medical supply shop in New York and, now retired, looks back on his life as an immigrant who arrived as a child with his parents. Amid memories and silences, the complicated relationship with Sunny, his adopted Korean daughter, and the aftermath of a tragedy during the Second World War that shaped his identity come to the surface.
The work was originally published as «A Gesture Life» in 1999 and won the Anisfield-Wolf and Gustavus Myers awards in 2000. The French translation is by Jean Pavans.
For readers of contemporary fiction and historical fiction about identity, emigration and memory.
Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.
