Boy Genius

ISBN-13: 9781888451245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 300 str.

Young Soo Park; Yongsoo Park

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The latest installment in the Akashic Urban Surreal series.
"Boy Genius" is a powerful identity satire, the picaresque odyssey of a child seeking to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on his parents. Park's genius, born into the turmoil of post-war Korea, is used as a puppet by the South Korean government--before being banished to America. From a remote New York city ghetto, the boy wages a clandestine guerilla war against all symbols of authority. Park renders his vision of late-20th-century global culture with the bold, surreal strokes of Pynchon and the wild political sensibilities of Godard; the painful, largely unmapped narrative territory of "Boy Genius" creates a gripping, harrowing read.
Yongsoo Park is a Korean-American writer and independent film-maker living in New York City.