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This is the pre-order page for the signed edition ofAmerican Hagwon by Min Jin Lee. Your order will be fulfilled upon publication: 29th September 2026.
Min Jin Lee, the acclaimed author of the major global bestseller Pachinko, returns
with a breath-taking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with
ambition and moderation, love and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty.
John and Helen Koh and their three children Bo, DH and Mido are building new lives in Korea when they find their worlds upended, first by a terrible betrayal and then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Striving to regain their footing, the Kohs set out to do whatever it takes to provide for their childrens futures. They leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in California, where new opportunities open for the Koh children, as the parents, strangers in a strange land, adjust to a difficult existence in which their qualifications mean little. Their way forward is lit by the faith that education will lead the next generation to the success and security that have eluded their parents.
The Kohs, their friends, relatives and even their foes move in and out of each others lives as theynavigate love, work, fortune and fulfilment across the years. But with each new sacrifice and freshhorizon, larger questions begin to open up before them: what are we willing to give up to secure thehappiness of the ones we love? What is the purpose of education? And what is truly important for agood life?
InAmerican Hagwon, Min Jin Lee has crafted a transcendent, panoramic novel of profound emotionalrichness, where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions. This is the mostambitious and extraordinary work yet by one of our greatest novelists.
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