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A Gesture Life

by Chang-rae Lee

First published 1999

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The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper, decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, he is transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army in World War II, and his obsessive love of a young comfort woman.

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Chang-rae Lee, born 1965, United States.

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Riverhead Books · 356 pages

Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pages
356
ISBN
978-1-86207-340-1 +4
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pages
356
ISBNs
  • 978-1-86207-340-1
  • 978-1-86207-401-9
  • 978-1-57322-146-7
  • 978-1-101-66004-1
  • 978-1-58724-287-8
Author
Lee, Chang-rae, 1965–
Statement
A Gesture Life / Chang-rae Lee.
Records
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Subjects

  • United States
  • 1990s
  • War
  • Historical fiction
  • Women's lives
  • Science and medicine
  • Koreans
  • Adoptees
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Comfort women
  • Japanese Americans
  • Medical care
  • Psychic trauma
  • Retirees
  • Women
  • World war, 1939-1945, fiction

Catalogue data checked 6 October 2026