{"product_id":"the-foreign-student","title":"The Foreign Student","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e --\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This wonderful hybrid of a novel\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003ea love story, a war story, a novel of manners\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eintroduces a writer of enchanting gifts, a beautiful heart wedded to a beautiful imagination.\" -- Francisco Goldman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Ordinary Seaman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving between the American South and South Korea, between an adolescent girl's sexual awakening and a young man's nightmarish memories of war, \u003cem\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful and emotionally gripping work of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943560610023,"sku":"9780060929275","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_04751bba-fd6a-45bb-a079-4aacd85cb695.jpg?v=1775325991","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-foreign-student","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}