Native Speaker
Chang-rae Lee
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
3.72
· 18 ratings · 386 pages · Published: 09 Apr 1995
‘What makes Native Speaker an important novel is no more complicated than this: it tells us the truth. Lee writes in a voice free of political bias about race fears... He writers of the fear of dilution, or self-loss... After so much racist posing, so much false restraint, Native speaker seems like a new kind of novel, the plainsong of unassimilated man, and in the murmur of his nascent voice is the soft clash of borders.’ Literary Review
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