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A reclusive professor unravels the choices that have defined his life in this enthralling novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Flashlight. Professor Lee, a mathematician near retirement age, would seem the last person to attract the attention of the FBI. Yet, after a star colleague...
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A reclusive professor unravels the choices that have defined his life in this enthralling novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Flashlight.
Professor Lee, a mathematician near retirement age, would seem the last person to attract the attention of the FBI. Yet, after a star colleague is targeted by a mail bomb, even Lee's own neighbours view him with damning suspicion.
Bewildered and alone, Lee is compelled to revisit the complicated events of his past and to reckon with the painful choicesβmade as a husband, a father and a scholarβthat continue to shape his life.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529997774
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 July 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 35.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Susan Choi is the author of the novels Flashlight, Trust Exercise, My Education, A Person of Interest, American Woman and The Foreign Student. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction, the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and has been a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Flashlight began as a short story and received the Sunday Times Short Story Award. Susan Choi lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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