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Boy GeniusBy Yongsoo Park (author of Las Cucarachas) Fiction | Paperback |
Selected for the 2002 Kiriyama Prize Notable Books List & selected as a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award. Autographed editions available from Akashic Books. Click on ordering button above. Click here to see author photo & read an exclusive interview with Yongsoo Park. Click here to find out about a special event with Lauren Sanders, author of With or Without You. Boy Genius is a powerful identity satire, the picaresque odyssey of a child seeking to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on his parents. Parkšs 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 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 filmmaker and playwright who was born in the mountain village of Bonghwa in North Kyoung Sang Province, South Korea during President Park Chung Hee's reign. He is the son of a math teacher and an English teacher who immigrated to the U.S. His great grandmother was a mezzo-soprano diva of the Pyoungyang National Opera, and his great grandfather was a warlord in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation of the Rabbit Peninsula. A Renaissance man, Yongsoo also wrote and directed the independent feature film Free Country. An avid lover of Southern cuisine, Yongsoo currently resides with his wife in Harlem, NYC. Akashic has published his second novel, Las Cucarachas. |
