The foreign student : a novel

ISBN: 0060929278
Physical Description: print 325 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition: HarperPerennial ed.
Publisher: New York : HarperPerennial, 1999.

Choi, Susan 1969- (Author).

Summary: This is the story of a young Korean man, scarred by war, and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation.