A Person of Interest
Will be published approx. on 16. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-5299-9777-4 (ISBN)
Description
A reclusive professor unravels the choices that have defined his life in this enthralling novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
'Choi has the all-too-rare talent of making the political feel unsettlingly personal' Vogue
'Gripping' New York Times
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 choices - made as a husband, a father and a scholar - that continue to shape his life.
'A tour de force' Washington Post
'Eloquent, penetrating' O, The Oprah Magazine
'A revealing journey into the alienated heart of modern American life' Los Angeles Times
'Masterful... Choi seems to be working in a genre all her own' Salon
'Choi has the all-too-rare talent of making the political feel unsettlingly personal' Vogue
'Gripping' New York Times
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 choices - made as a husband, a father and a scholar - that continue to shape his life.
'A tour de force' Washington Post
'Eloquent, penetrating' O, The Oprah Magazine
'A revealing journey into the alienated heart of modern American life' Los Angeles Times
'Masterful... Choi seems to be working in a genre all her own' Salon
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-9777-4 (9781529997774)
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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.