Offerings

Name: Offerings
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael ByungJu Kim
ISBN: 9781666541540

Author: Michael ByungJu Kim

Narrator: David Shih

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/10/2020

Categories: Fiction, Indigenous, Cultural Fiction

Synopsis

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 Joon—also known by his American name of Shane, after the cowboy movie his father so loved—the stakes are personal. Raised in the US and Harvard Business School–educated, Dae Joon is a jangnam, 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. At the same time, a young woman he meets is quietly showing the way to a different future, and his closest friend from business school, a scion of one of Korea's biggest chaebol, asks for his help in a sale that may save the conglomerate but also salvage a legacy of corruption. Finding himself in personal crisis, Dae Joon is torn by dueling loyalties, his identity tested.

About Michael ByungJu Kim

Michael ByungJu Kim is a financier, a philanthropist, and an author. He has more than thirty years of experience on Wall Street, in investment banking, and in private equity. He grew up in Seoul, Korea, was educated in the United States, and currently works in Seoul and Hong Kong. He has two sons working and studying in the US, and he lives with his wife of twenty-eight years in Seoul. Offerings is his first novel.

About David Shih

David Shih is a Taiwanese-American actor and voice actor who voiced Eddie Toh in Grand Theft Auto V and a gangster in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. His television credits include Interpol Investigates, Blue Bloods, and All My Children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Reading_ on December 22, 2020

You will enjoy this book if you enjoy *Political fiction *Historical fiction *In-depth character portrayal *Family saga *Multicultural representation As for me, I quite enjoyed the complex characters and the writing style. It tends to become a bit too political and philosophical at times (as expected). Th......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 23, 2020

3.5 stars. I complain a lot in my reviews about comp titles (the books a book gets compared to) and how lazy many of them are. But this one is actually pretty good! Chang Rae Lee + The Big Short is a very accurate pitch of this book. There are so many things wrapped up in this book but it uses as it......more

Goodreads review by Ruibo on June 03, 2022

A book touches my heart for its story resonates with me. I felt well connected with the author Michael ByungJu Kim when I was reading: I saw someone loves his homeland, his people, and his family deep inside his heart. And this love was not "publicly displayed" but was inexplicitly expressed or some......more

Goodreads review by Daniela on March 29, 2020

This is the 6th title I have won from GoodReads. This novel tells the story of a Korean protagonist who moves to the United States of America at a young age, and against his father's wishes pursues a career in business. He graduates from Harvard University and lands a job on Wall Street, which eventu......more

Goodreads review by Kate on May 15, 2025

His colleague’s nickname is the Jackhammer whose wife’s nickname is “The Slab.” Finance bros are the same in all countries. This sounds promising, but unfortunately, this book is bad.......more