Synopses & Reviews
Two very unlikely worlds intersect in The Foreign Student, war-ravaged Korea and the genteel culture of Sewanee, Tennessee. In gracious prose, Susan Choi renders their cruelties, their lies, and their beauty. --Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
This wonderful hybrid of a novel-- a love story, a war story, a novel of manners--introduces a writer of enchanting gifts, a beautiful heart wedded to a beautiful imagination. How else does Susan Choi so fully inhabit characters from disparate backgrounds, with such brilliant wit and insight? The Foreign Student stirs up great and lovely emotions. --Francisco Goldman, author of The Ordinary Seaman
A powerful and involving book... [written in] a style that can accommodate both the broad forces of history and the most intimate of lives. --Lamar Herrin, author of The Lies Boys Tell
A novel of secrets that unfold like the leaves on an artichoke. The Foreign Student is a mosaic of betrayal in peace and war that marks the debut of a gifted young novelist wise beyond her years. --John Gregory Dunne