Books for Korean American Day

From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure – and about the human capacities for pleasure, pain, and connection.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present.

Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.

Part picaresque adventure, part shrewd social commentary, East Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation. It is a masterpiece not only of Asian American literature but also of American literature.

The Martyred is a stunning meditation on truth, religion, and faith in times of crisis.

A landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown.