Granta Books Paperback 1998
324 Pages

Back Cover:

Native Speaker is a story about a detective. It is also a wise and compassionate novel about the immigrant experience, about love, loyalty and the languages that define us.

'The prose style is simple, but this is far from a simple book. Notionally a detective story, it is really a study of a particular type of personality: secretive, suspicious, watchful. The cool delivery masks an alert and vibrant intelligence. Beautifully done.'
Daily Telegraph

'As in a Saul Bellow, only about three things happen (or a thousand, depending on how you look at it). And, like a Bellow novel, it is also very, very good.'
Guardian

'What makes Native Speaker, finally, an important novel is no more complicated than this: it tells us the truth. Lee writes in a voice free of political bias about race fears ... He writes of the fear of dilution, of self-loss ... After so much racist posing, so much false restraint, Native Speaker seems like a new kind of novel, the plainsong of unassimilated man, and in the murmur of his nascent voice is the soft clash of borders.'
Literary Review

'remarkable'
Sunday Times

'A stunning thriller cum love story. Highly original.'
The Times

The book will be released in the Kamppi Shopping Mall, in the small part above the terminal for long-distance busses.
Boken kommer att släppas på skomakarens bokhylla i köpcentret Kamppi, ovanför långdistansbussterminalen.
Kirja vapautuu Kampin kauppakeskus suutarin kirjahyllyyn, kaukobussien terminaalin yläpuolella.

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