{"product_id":"american-hagwon-1","title":"American Hagwon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe National Book Award finalist and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePachinko\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate, that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Min Jin Lee brings grand ambition, fierce heart, and the tenderest hope to a novel I didn't want to end.\" -Roxane Gay, bestselling hunger of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBad Feminist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHunger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn schools and churches, hotel rooms and nail salons, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped, dingy apartments and luxury, gated communities, the men, women, and children in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Hagwon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children-Bo, DH, and Mido-find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John's oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDesperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California-where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents, strangers in a strange land, must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children's futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other's lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Hagwon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable, panoramic novel where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions, where the bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break, and where willful self-sacrifice-for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers-is a kind of prayer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"An immersive, engrossing novel ... this is panorama told in brilliant detail.\" -Colm Toibin, bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLong Island\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS :\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"rte__table-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width: 100%; height: 117.563px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" style=\"width: 99.639%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eISBN : 9781538785881\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" style=\"width: 99.639%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eBY (AUTHOR) Lee, Min Jin\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 46.6594%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003ePUBLISHER : \u003cspan\u003eCardinal\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 52.9796%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003ePUBLICATION DATE : September 29, 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 46.6594%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eCOUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 52.9796%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eIMPRINT : \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 46.6594%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eLANGUAGE : English\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 52.9796%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003eAGE : General\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.5938px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" style=\"width: 99.639%; height: 19.5938px;\"\u003ePRODUCT FORM : Paperback \/ softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDIMENSION : 15.24 x 4.6 x 22.86 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee, Min Jin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50020083859733,"sku":"9781538785881","price":200.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0272\/7087\/3174\/files\/81FNkwTGo1L._SY466.jpg?v=1783565446","url":"https:\/\/bookazine.com.hk\/products\/american-hagwon-1","provider":"Bookazine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}