East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee Kang, Younghill Literature

First edition, first printing. [vi], 401 pp. Bound in publisher's buff cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with light wear, evidence of tiny label removal to front free endpaper and back pastedown. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine panel, moderate wear. A classic of Asian American literature, this novel tells the story of Chungpa Han, a penniless Korean refugee who makes his way through the US and Canada in the 1920s, trying to fit in and support his studies. The Korean American author's two books were published by Maxwell Perkins-- famous editor of Hemingway, Wolfe (a fan of Kang's work), and Fitzgerald-- to critical acclaim, but fell out of print and were neglected for many decades.