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13-423: Mann called Stifter "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature". Poet W. H. Auden wrote: "To bring off, as Stifter does, a story of this kind, with its breathtaking risks of appalling banalities, is a great feat. What might so easily have been a tear-jerking melodrama becomes in his hands a quiet and beautiful parable about

26-508: A resolve she keeps up throughout Katherine's adulthood. During his time in college, Chuck remembers his experience during the Korean War, where he worked as a translator for the American forces. Charles unexpectedly proposes to Katherine, who accepts. When Chuck hears news of their engagement, he leaves Sewanee for Chicago to take a summer job in a book bindery that the dean of The University of

39-588: Is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Foreign Student (1998), American Woman (2003), and Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for Fiction . Choi teaches creative writing at Yale University . Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and a Jewish mother. She attended public schools. When she was nine years old, her parents divorced. She and her mother moved to Houston, Texas , where she attended

52-730: The Asian American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist of the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes & Noble . Her second novel, American Woman (2003), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in literature. In 2010, she won the PEN / W.G. Sebald Award for A Person of Interest , which was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2009. In 2014, her fourth novel, My Education , won

65-578: The Korean War ends. He meets 28-year-old Katherine Monroe, who lives year-round in her family's summer home in Sewanee. Chuck and Katherine become friends. Katherine is in an ill-defined relationship with Charles Addison, an English professor at the college and her father's former roommate. Katherine and Charles began sleeping together when Katherine was only fourteen, and the discovery of their relationship led to Katherine's mother refusing to speak to her anymore,

78-485: The Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. With David Remnick , Choi edited an anthology of short fiction entitled Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker . Her latest novel is Trust Exercise (2019), which won the National Book Award for Fiction . As of May 2018, Choi is working on a novel employing conventions of memoir and reportage that "takes up the question of national identity, and

91-682: The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts . Choi earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University . After receiving her graduate degree, she worked for The New Yorker as a fact checker . At this job she met her husband, Pete Wells ; they separated in 2016 but continue to share a house in Brooklyn and co-parent their two sons. Choi published her first novel, The Foreign Student (1998). It won

104-511: The South arranges for him. After being repeatedly and falsely accused of stealing money, he steals $ 100 and boards a train to New Orleans, where Katherine is staying with her dying mother in her childhood home. Katherine breaks up with Charles and goes with Chuck and her mother to a house on the Gulf Coast. Chuck returns to Sewanee and promises to wait for Katherine while she cares for her mother. Chuck

117-569: The TV movie Bergkristall by Paul Stockmeier; in 1999 as the TV movie Rock Crystal  [ de ] by Maurizio Zaccaro ; and in 2004 as the film Rock Crystal by Joseph Vilsmaier . It inspired Sylvano Bussotti 's Bergkristall (1972), a ballet in one act and seven scenes premièred by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Bruno Maderna in Hamburg in 1973, the music of which

130-460: The extent to which it coincides or does not coincide with ethnic and with cultural identity." She teaches creative writing at Yale University . The Foreign Student The Foreign Student is the first novel by Asian-American author Susan Choi , published in 1998. In 1955, 25-year-old Chang (“Chuck”) Ahn arrives at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee from Korea after

143-543: The relation of people to places, of man to nature." The story's power, according to author Susan Choi , arises not from danger, but from "catastrophe's quiet avoidance: from the series of small miracles by which the children survive". Hannah Arendt praised Stifter as a "friend of reality" and "the greatest landscape painter in literature" for his avoidance of generalities and impressions in favor of sensory details. In an unpublished review of an English translation she praised "the strange, innocent wisdom of Stifter's work". It

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156-408: Was adapted from that of an earlier work, Nottetempo con lo scherzo e una rose (1953–1957), for voice and chamber orchestra. This article about an 1850s novel is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Susan Choi Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist . She

169-604: Was translated into English in 1945 by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore , re-issued by Pushkin Press in 2001 and the New York Review of Books in 2008. An earlier translation from 1914 by Lee M. Hollander is in the public domain . It has been adapted to film and TV a number of times: in 1949 as the film Mountain Crystal (directed by Harald Reinl ); in 1954 as the TV movie Bergkristall (director: Albert Lippert ); in 1974 as

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