"This wonderful hybrid of a novel-- a love story, a war story, a novel of manners--introduces a writer of enchanting gifts, a beautiful heart wedded to a beautiful imagination. How else does Susan Choi so fully inhabit characters from disparate backgrounds, with such brilliant wit and insight? "The Foreign Student" stirs up great and lovely emotions". --Francisco Goldman, author of "The Ordinary Seaman"

"A powerful and involving book... [written in] a style that can accommodate both the broad forces of history and the most intimate of lives". --Lamar Herrin, author of "The Lies Boys Tell"

"A novel of secrets that unfold like the leaves on an artichoke. "The Foreign Student" is a mosaic of betrayal in peace and war that marks the debut of a gifted young novelist wise beyond her years". --John Gregory Dunne