—Selected for the 2002 Kiriyama Prize Notable Books List
—Selected as a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award
—Selected for the 2002 Kiriyama Prize Notable Books List —Selected as a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award
A selection of 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 postwar 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 guerrilla 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
creates a gripping, harrowing read.