However they fare when they return home, the imprint the young Japanese expatriates are leaving on American culture is murky, at best.

Among those books that his book found impossible to write was a novel about young expatriates in Paris.

He also tells us that his protagonist, a young Werther with a short shelf life, has found it impossible to write a novel about young Parisian expatriates.

Thea's affair with a young American expatriate is serious, her allegiance to the Fatherland clearly more zealous than his, and her ambition to direct boundless.

After college, she joined the group of young American expatriates who flocked to Prague after the fall of communism.

Moon again showed her generosity by building a Korean library for young Korean expatriates in Australia.

And Mr. Phillips, like the young American expatriates in his novel, has lived in Budapest.

"Five young expatriates hunch around an undersized cafe table: a moment of total insignificance, and not without a powerful whiff of cliché."

The five young expatriates enjoy the nightlife and new opportunities in the historic city.

The main line of the novel follows a group of young Western expatriates through their lives in Budapest.