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The Foreign Student

From the Booker Prize Shortlisted author of Flashlight

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The Foreign Student

Written by: Susan Choi
Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
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Two outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping story of love and war – the debut novel from the author of Flashlight

In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by a dark episode from the past.

Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation.

‘A major world writer’ New York Times

‘Epic and intimate’ The New Yorker

‘A first novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness’ Los Angeles Times

‘Elegantly wrought’ Vanity Fair

© Susan Choi 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Historical Romance Literary Fiction War & Military
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A writer I’ve long been – and will always be – eager to read (R. O. Kwon)
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