The Surrendered
Author(s): Chang-rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee, the bestselling and award-winning author of Native Speaker, Aloft, and My Year Abroad returns with his most ambitious novel yet-a spellbinding story of how love and war echo through an entire lifetime.
June Han was orphaned as a girl by the Korean War. Hector Brennan was a young GI who fled the petty tragedies of his small town to serve his country. When the war ended, their lives collided at a Korean orphanage, where they vied for the attention of Sylvie Tanner, a beautiful yet deeply damaged missionary.
As Lee masterfully unfurls the stunning story of June, Hector, and Sylvie, he weaves a profound meditation on the nature of heroism and sacrifice, the power of love, and the possibilities for mercy, salvation, and surrendering oneself to another.
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** 'Masterful ... THE SURRENDERED bursts with drama and human anguish ... Powerful, deeply felt, compulsively readable and imbued with moral gravity, the novel does not peter out into easy redemption. It's a harrowing tale: bleak, haunting and often heart-breaking - and not to be missed' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ** 'Chang-rae Lee has created such a tour de force that its images and narrative linger for a long time after reading' BOOKSELLER'S CHOICE ** 'A major achievement, and likely to be remembered as one of this year's best books' KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW
Chang-rae Lee is the author of the bestselling novel Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/Pen award. He teaches at Princeton University.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Sphere
- : 0.63
- : 01 March 2010
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Chang-rae Lee
- : Paperback
- : Export ed
- : 813.54
- : 480
