The Translation of Julian Yu: A Novel

by Ezekiel Lee

Overview

"Hey You, Julian Yu!' That's how 18-year-old Julian Yu's peers relentlessly mock him. If only he could hide away and read, left alone as an irredeemable nerd. With desperation mounting as his junior year draws to a close and young adulthood looms on the horizon, will Julian ever escape the torment?

Will he decipher those enigmas called relationships, whether with his enviably popular older brother who's Ivy League bound, his elegant English teacher with a mysterious Japanese past, or his Jewish classmate turned potential love interest?

Will he reconcile his Taiwanese heritage and broken Chinese with his American upbringing and impeccable English?

And more than anything, will he finally relinquish his innate cynicism for something akin to hope?

The Translation of Julian Yu is a coming-of-age novel for our fractious times about a young Taiwanese-American's confrontations with race, culture, and language, and his search for an identity that transcends it all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798990045613
Publisher:	All Tongues and Tribes Press
Publication date:	07/30/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	578
File size:	586 KB

About the Author

Ezekiel Lee was born and raised in New York. He currently lives in the Mountain West with his wife, son, and two cats. He practices as a speech-language pathologist and teaches Chinese and Japanese on the side. He also has worked as a Chinese and Japanese translator. When he's not doing speech therapy, teaching foreign languages, or writing, he may be found fiddling away (literally), refining his Korean, or reading on the couch with his family (both human and feline). This is his first novel. His next project is a tongue-in-cheek psychodrama about a Chinese orphan who becomes a spy, poses as an exchange student, and surveils his American host family.