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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Boy Genius

Boy Genius

Park, Yongsoo

Paperback

Series: Akashic Urban Surreal

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1888451246
ISBN13: 9781888451245
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Feb 1 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.52 Depth: 7.04
Language: English

--Selected for the 2002 Kiriyama Prize Notable Books List

--Selected as a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award

A selection of the Akashic Urban Surreal Series.

Boy Genius is a powerful identity satire, the picaresque odyssey of a child seeking to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on his parents. Park's genius, born into the turmoil of postwar Korea, is used as a puppet by the South Korean government--before being banished to America. From a remote New York City ghetto, the boy wages a clandestine guerrilla war against all symbols of authority. Park renders his vision of late-20th-century global culture with the bold, surreal strokes of Pynchon and the wild political sensibilities of Godard; the painful, largely unmapped narrative territory of Boy Genius creates a gripping, harrowing read.

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