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Boy Genius: A Novel (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) by Yongsoo Park; Young Soo Park is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Boy Genius: A Novel (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) about?

The latest installment in the Akashic Urban Surreal series. Boy Genius is a powerful identity satire, the picaresque odyssey of a child seeking to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on his parents. Park's genius, born into the turmoil of post-war Korea, is used as a puppet by the South Korean government--before being banished to America. From a remote New York city ghetto, the boy wages a clandestine guerilla war against all symbols of authority. Park renders his vision of late-20th-century global culture with the bold, surreal strokes of Pynchon and the wild political sensibilities of Godard; the painful, largely unmapped narrative territory of Boy Genius creates a gripping, harrowing read...Set partly in the fictitious city of Bogota, NYC, this book is the first segment of Park's Elmhurst Trilogy, made up of Boy Genius, Las Cucarachas, and Rated R Boy..Yongsoo Park is a Korean-American writer and independent film-maker living in New York City.

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Author

Yongsoo Park; Young Soo Park

Publisher

Akashic Books, Ltd.

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781888451245

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.59 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14