Boy Genius
Yongsoo Park, Young Soo Park. Akashic Books, $14.95 (228pp) ISBN 978-1-888451-24-5
Filmmaker Yonsoo Park's debut, Boy Genius, follows the life of its eponymous protagonist through a surreal stew of politics, betrayal, race and identity. BG falls from grace as a state-sponsored child TV star in Korea and heads to America with his parents. He spends his adolescence rebelling against his teachers in a teeming East Coast slum; when his parents are killed, he heads to California, where surgery transforms him into a Caucasian. Fraught with bizarre plot twists and impossible coincidences, Park's unique characters inhabit a dark, violent and paranoid world in which nothing and no one is as it appears.
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Reviewed on: 02/18/2002
Genre: Fiction
MP3 CD - 978-1-7997-8517-0
Open Ebook - 300 pages - 978-1-61775-246-9