¡°A beautiful, solitary, remarkably tender book.¡±-The New York Times Book Review
¡°A Gesture Life is the touching, multilayered rumination of an uneasy psyche. It is also a tragic, horrifying page-turner, whose evocation of wartime victims is unforgettable¡¦A deeply involving tale, no less so because we realize, almost from the first chapter, that we can¡¯t trust Hata¡¯s version of events. [Lee] enlists the reader¡¯s full energies to interpret this enigmatic speaker, who saddens, baffles and unfuriates us all at once.¡±-Chicago Tribune
¡°Once again, this gifted young author has given us a beautifully tapestried story of seeking identity and acceptance in another culture while remaining separate from the tug of it.¡±-The Christian Science Monitor
¡°Lee elegantly creates suspense out of the seemingly static story of a man trying hard not to feel. He has written a wise and humane novel that both amplifies the themes of identity and exile he addressed in Native Speaker, and creates a wonderfully resonant portrait of a man caught between two cultures and two lives.¡±-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Lee, Chang-Rae [Àú]
Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction; A Gesture Life; Aloft; and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Selected by The New Yorker as one of the ¡°20 Writers for the 21st Century,¡± Chang-rae Lee is Professor professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and the a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.