The Foreign Student: A Novel - Tapa blanda

"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

"A luminous and accomplished first novel . . . that resonates with compassion-turned-ardor and an addictive melancholy vibrating beneath every line."--Houston Chronicle

"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 young war-shocked Korean man falls for a comely southern belle with secrets of her own in Susan Choi's elegantly wrought first novel, The Foreign Student."--Vanity Fair

"An accomplished, perceptive novel, which invites rereading and lingers in the reader's memory."--Booklist

"An auspicious debut novel . . . epic in its harrowing accounts of war and intimate in its charged descriptions of the unlikely love affair at its center."--The New Yorker

"Choi's descriptions are strange and powerful....The Foreign Student's plot is carefully orchestrated and camera-ready. It takes a war, an epistolary betrayal, and a natural disaster to effect a kiss."--New York magazine

"First-time novelist Susan Choi writes gracefully, insightfully and with striking maturity."--Time

"Richly detailed. . . . Moving from the present to the past, from America to Korea, Choi brings hundreds of small scenes to life."--New York Times Book Review

"Susan Choi has written a first novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness. Her prose has the feel of a handmade artifact, oddly bumpy at times and startlingly expressive."--Los Angeles Times Book Review