{"product_id":"9780143136286","title":"East Goes West (Penguin Vitae)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he travels throughout the United States and Canada, becoming by turns a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer, and observing along the way the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century. Part picaresque adventure, part shrewd social commentary, East Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation. It is a masterpiece not only of Asian American literature but also of American literature\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408432668899,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780143136286-1.jpg?v=1788324921","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9780143136286","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}