Las Cucarachas

ISBN: 1888451564

Author: Park, Yongsoo

Condition: New

Life hits rock bottom for 12-year-old Peter Kim when his family's apartment gets burglarized and he loses his most-prized possession, an Apple computer. Las Cucarachas documents the most important 48 hours of a young urban boy's life."Park has created an Asian Candide, satirizing political and national fanaticism." --from Ten Magazine review of Boy GeniusYongsoo Park is a novelist, filmmaker and playwright. His debut novel Boy Genius was recognized as a Notable Title for the 2002 Kiriyama Book Prize and as a finalist for the 2003 Asian American Literary Awards. A former Van Lier Fellowship winner at the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Park was born in South Korea and lives in Harlem.Las Cucarachas is the second book in the Elmhurst Trilogy, made up of Boy Genius, Las Cucarachas, and Rated R Boy: Growing Up Korean in 1980s Queens.