Island of Bicycle Dancers

English

ISBN: 0312312466

EAN: 9780312312466

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech

Publisher: Picador

Release Date: 02/28/2005

Synopsis: This is the coming-of-age story of twenty-year old Yurika Song, a Korean-Japanese woman who comes from Japan to New York City for a summer to work with her Korean relatives and improve her English. Yurikas friends back home have always joked that she is half-sushi/half kim-chi. But cross-Asian ethnicities turn out to be far less jarring than her entree into New York life in the guise of bicycle messengers and the street culture in which they thrive. On one level this is a tale of mistaken love--Yurika falls hard for an attractive, but dangerous, Puerto Rican bicycle messenger nicknamed Bone. But on another, deeper level, our heroine finds freedom in this new language, which to her is like a huge octopus, very clever and sometimes hard to catch.

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Island of Bicycle Dancers

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.64 inches

Width: 5.02 inches

Length: 8.84 inches

Weight: 7.76 oz

Pages: 240