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Title: East meets West meets South
Review: THE FOREIGN STUDENT is a well crafted novel that deserves more attention than it received when it was initally released. Perhaps with the increasing interest in written works by Asians there will be a belated audience - author Choi deserves it. There were elements in reading Ha Jin's "The Bridegroom" stories that rang a responsive memory bell about Choi's book, encouraging a return to re-approach Choi's work. On second reading it gains in quality. Choi has quite successfully captured the sense of buried secrets carried by us all, but epitomized in her Chang, her Katherine, and the entire tenor of contemporary life in the South - both American and Korean. Similarites to the youthful struggle with ideolgies, loss, muted desire, resolution or dissipation.....Choi captures it all with smooth, elegant yet walloping writing. This is a fine novel.....let's hope more are coming.
