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A Conversation with Chang-rae Lee and Bruce Cumings

Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library

March 29, 2011

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Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee’s widely acclaimed debut novel, explored the alienation that modern-day immigrants face—from both American culture and the cultures they leave behind. The book won several awards, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction. Lee went on to write the novel A Gesture Life and the bestseller Aloft. The year 2010 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Called a “sobering corrective” by a reviewer for the New York Times, Bruce Cumings’s book takes a fresh look at the often unjustly ignored conflict. Characterizing its beginning as a civil war in which America should not have intervened, Cumings exposes the atrocities committed by all sides during combat. He is chair of the history department at the University of Chicago, author of The Origins of the Korean War, and winner of the Kim Dae Jung Prize for Scholarly Contributions to Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace.