Chang-rae Lee tells a harrowing tale of the lasting effects of war that moves from Korea in the 1950s to China in the 1930s to New York City and Italy in the 1980s. Selected by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, Lee has been honored by a host of literary awards, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.