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Blog: I met Chang-rae Lee!

March 18, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Chang-rae Lee holds a copy of Northwest Asian Weekly at Costco in Issaquah, at his book signing. (Photo by George Liu/NWAW)

 

Chang-rae Lee, who just published his fourth novel, “The Surrendered,” was signing autographs at Costco. So I requested that he autograph his book in both English and Korean. It would be a good item to donate to a charity auction. 

“Do you speak Korean?” I asked. 

“Not very much,” Lee said. “I understand it.” 

When he was young, Lee’s dad thought English would help his son, not Korean. 

There wasn’t a community that required him to speak his native language when he was little. Yeah, he wished he could speak more! I asked what the most challenging part was for him in writing “The Surrendered.” 

“Towards the end,” he replied. “There was so much material, and you want to finish it.” 

I understood as I held the heavy, 469-page book. 

It will take me a while to gulp it down before I can donate my copy to a charity. If the book is unable to sustain my attention, I could give it away sooner. ♦

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Filed Under: Publisher Ng's blog Tagged With: 2010, Chang-Rae Lee, Korean, Publisher Ng's blog, Vol 29 No 12 | March 20 - March 26, attention, language

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