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...ure; but she was still a woman down deep even if she denied it just as his American passport and name-change made him abstain from bits of himself. A... ...sed land he did not expect that even if he were to live somewhere in "Euro-American Bangkok" (Banglampool, Silom, and Sukumvit roads with their seven ... ... Then he obfuscated. "Didn't you read in an encyclopedia one time that the American president, Abraham Lincoln, said, 'In the civil war it is quite po... ... airport, she would continue to bury herself in comic books and the latest American sounds when not engrossed in her French palaver with the cassette ... ...t are they: these snowmen? Are they just Englishmen?" "That but also Americans who didn't want to fight against King George... Frenchmen, of co... ...he hundred women on a given day that sought to get traveler's visas at the German Embassy escorted by their boyfriends so as to begin a departure that...
...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...mething to him in Korean. "Miguk Sarem imnidad" responded Sang Huin (I am an American). Sung Ki, accompanied by a high school friend, took him to eat ... ...red in his perceptions as reality and not a part of his dreams. It was of a German American woman in a Volkswagen driving southwest through America's... ...re the most expensive fashions of the elite that gave her broad and muscular German frame elegance as she got ready to take her son to galleries, temp... ...t the Spanish word of "criatura." Her extended family had been a mixture of Germans and German-Argentineans, a passionate and passionless crowd who o... ...rned toward Gabriele with stoic facial expressions and then crassly spoke in German that Gabriele should stop thinking about Christmas since it was a ... .... "In a way, I am glad you brought this up," continued Gabriele's mother in German. "There are some things that will be changing soon." A cloud ran ...
...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...
...and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his gr... ...ully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brought to hi... ...he were to be perceived as another wealthy and indolent foreigner (usually German or French but not always so) suffering and despondent because of a k... ...inating, he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, angel food cake burnished in icing, and brou... ... of the living room on early into early morning chilling the house like an American winter, and he would snuggle deep under a saffron monk-colored bla... ...ny of his Thai friends often looked at him when finding out that he had an American passport. But then, everything was relative. Perhaps a Somalian wo... ...rmatous brute although perceived more erotically for it. As this issue was germane to him, he thought that nothing truer could have been spoken. He fe...