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Lessons in Attention by Jimin Kang
Jimin Kang’s stunning debut novel about grief, faith, and what it means to belong to a place and other people
- Sale Date
- ISBN
- 9781638935193
- Page Count
- 304
- Language
- English
- Imprint
- Tin House
Meet the Author
Jimin Kang
Jimin Kang’s stunning debut novel about grief, faith, and what it means to belong to a place and other people
When Toby Burton, an Oxford-born philosophy student, goes missing on a research trip in Brazil, his friend Lua Oliveira—a Brazilian translator recently moved to England from America—is forced to confront her involvement in his disappearance.
As Lua’s Korean American ex-boyfriend Elias arrives in Oxford to support the search, Lua begrudgingly enlists the help not only of the local Quaker community but her estranged mother, a retired diplomat-turned-evangelical Christian in São Paulo.
Lessons in Attention explores themes of faith, belonging, translation, and the meaning of attention, raising the question of how thoroughly we know the people we love—if we choose to see them fully at all.
When Toby Burton, an Oxford-born philosophy student, goes missing on a research trip in Brazil, his friend Lua Oliveira—a Brazilian translator recently moved to England from America—is forced to confront her involvement in his disappearance.
As Lua’s Korean American ex-boyfriend Elias arrives in Oxford to support the search, Lua begrudgingly enlists the help not only of the local Quaker community but her estranged mother, a retired diplomat-turned-evangelical Christian in São Paulo.
Lessons in Attention explores themes of faith, belonging, translation, and the meaning of attention, raising the question of how thoroughly we know the people we love—if we choose to see them fully at all.
Praise for Lessons in Attention
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“A seductive voice that knows all too well the foibles of the human heart.”
Ledia Xhoga, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Misinterpretation -
“Jimin Kang’s Lessons in Attention is an ambitious debut. Kang reckons with translanguaging and the pressures of a post-multicultural world, asking what it means to be legible—what happens when the self cannot be translated in the spaces that matter most. Attuned to the frictions of migration and translation shaping this generation, the novel reveals that language, and people, are never lost—only waiting to be found again.”
E. J. Koh, author of The Liberators and The Magical Language of Others
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