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백만장자를 위한 공짜 음식 2
2022년 새로운 번역으로 돌아온 《파친코》에 이어, 이민진 작가의 ‘코리안 디아스포라’ 삼부작의 첫 번째 소설인 《백만장자를 위한 공짜 음식》이 다시 한국 독자의 곁을 찾는다. 2007년 출간되어 당시로서는 미국 사회가 주목한 적 없던 재미한국인들의 이야기를 생생하게 담아내 극찬받은 작품이다. 1990년대 뉴욕을 배경으로 한국계 이민 2세대 여성인 케이시 한과 동생 티나 한, 친구 엘라 심의 이야기가 펼쳐진다.
언뜻 화려해 보이는 맨해튼에서나, 비정한 월 스트리트에서나, 이민자의 고단함이 느껴지는 퀸스에서나 반은 한국인이고 반은 미국인인 이들의 삶은 결코 녹록치 않다. 섬세하게 묘사된 세대 간, 계층 간, 남녀 간의 갈등은 2022년에도 독자의 마음을 공명하게 한다. 주인공 케이시처럼 어린 나이에 부모를 따라 미국으로 이민한 이민진 작가의 자전적인 경험이 녹아 있는 소설로도 주목받았다.
언뜻 화려해 보이는 맨해튼에서나, 비정한 월 스트리트에서나, 이민자의 고단함이 느껴지는 퀸스에서나 반은 한국인이고 반은 미국인인 이들의 삶은 결코 녹록치 않다. 섬세하게 묘사된 세대 간, 계층 간, 남녀 간의 갈등은 2022년에도 독자의 마음을 공명하게 한다. 주인공 케이시처럼 어린 나이에 부모를 따라 미국으로 이민한 이민진 작가의 자전적인 경험이 녹아 있는 소설로도 주목받았다.
488 pages, Paperback
Published November 25, 2022
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About the author
Min Jin Lee
19 books8,623 followersMin Jin Lee’s novel Pachinko (Feb 2017) is a national bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Great Reads. Lee’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires (May 2007) was a No. 1 Book Sense Pick, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Wall Street Journal Juggle Book Club selection, and a national bestseller; it was a Top 10 Novels of the Year for The Times of London, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today.
Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. Her personal essays have been anthologized in To Be Real, Breeder, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work, One Big Happy Family, Sugar in My Bowl, and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea.
Lee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater).
From 2007 to 2011, Min Jin lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She lives in New York with her family.
Min Jin went to Yale College where she was awarded both the Henry Wright Prize for Nonfiction and the James Ashmun Veech Prize for Fiction. She attended law school at Georgetown University and worked as a lawyer for several years in New York prior to writing full time.
She has received the NYFA Fellowship for Fiction, the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review for Best Story, and the Narrative Prize for New and Emerging Writer. Her fiction has been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared most recently in One Story. Her writings about books, travel and food have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Conde Nast Traveler, The Times of London, Vogue (US), Travel + Leisure (SEA), Wall Street Journal and Food & Wine. Her personal essays have been anthologized in To Be Real, Breeder, The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work, One Big Happy Family, Sugar in My Bowl, and The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time. She served three consecutive seasons as a Morning Forum columnist of the Chosun Ilbo of South Korea.
Lee has spoken about writing, politics, film and literature at various institutions including Columbia University, French Institute Alliance Francaise, The Center for Fiction, Tufts, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford, Johns Hopkins (SAIS), University of Connecticut, Boston College, Hamilton College, Hunter College of New York, Harvard Law School, Yale University, Ewha University, Waseda University, the American School in Japan, World Women’s Forum, Korean Community Center (NJ), the Hay Literary Festival (UK), the Tokyo American Center of the U.S. Embassy, the Asia House (UK), and the Asia Society in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. In 2017, she won the Literary Death Match (Brooklyn/Episode 8), and she is a proud alumna of Women of Letters (Public Theater).
From 2007 to 2011, Min Jin lived in Tokyo where she researched and wrote Pachinko. She lives in New York with her family.
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