Description
Chungpa Han arrives in New York after fleeing Japanese-occupied Korea, carrying both the hope of reinvention and the weight of displacement. Struggling to make ends meet, he drifts through a series of jobs—traveling salesman, domestic worker, farmer—encountering a restless cast of dreamers, hustlers, and opportunists along the way. With a picaresque, street-level energy, the novel traces how idealism collides with greed and how survival can reshape a person’s sense of belonging. Through Han’s shifting fortunes, the book explores immigration, labor, identity, and the complicated promise of the “American” future, all rendered in Younghill Kang’s vivid, conversational style and early Korean American perspective.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Classics
Published May 21, 2019
432 pages
ISBN: 9780143134305
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Details
First Published
1937
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for East Goes West by Younghill Kang.