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  A Gesture Life (Paperback) By (author) Chang-Rae Lee

  

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  Short Description for A Gesture LifeFrom the acclaimed author of "Native Speaker" comes his second novel about a Japanese World War II veteran who becomes a proper man and upstanding citizen in New York. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army and his obsessive love for a young comfort woman. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Published: 01 October 2000
  • Format: Paperback 356 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781573228282 ISBN 10: 1573228281
  • Sales rank: 362,117

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• The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper, decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army in World War II, and his obsessive love of a young comfort woman.