β Scribed by Michael ByungJu Kim
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
For fans of Chang-Rae Lee, Min Jin Lee, andThe Big Short, a moving novel about love, sacrifice, ambition, and greedβand a financial crisis
With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown, investment banker Dae Joon finds himself back in his native Seoul as part of an international team brought in to rescue the country from sovereign default. For Dae Joonβalso known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his father so lovedβthe stakes are personal.
Raised in the US and Harvard Business Schoolβeducated, Dae Joon is ajangnam, a firstborn son, bound by tradition to follow in the footsteps of his forebears. But rather than pursue the path his scholar-father wanted, he has sought a career on Wall Street, at the epicenter of power in the American empire. Now, as he and his fellow bankers work feverishly with Korean officials to execute a sovereign bond offering to raise badly needed capital, he knows that his own father is living on borrowed time, in the last stages of a disease that is the family curse. A young woman he has met is quietly showing the way to a different future. And when his closest friend from business school, a scion of one of Korea's biggest chaebol, asks his help in a sale that may save the conglomerate but also salvage a legacy of corruption, he finds himself in personal crisis, torn by dueling loyalties, his identity tested.
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