The bestselling, award-winning writer of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft returns with his biggest, most ambitious novel yet: a spellbinding story of how love and war echo through an entire lifetime.
Riverhead Books
November 2009
On Sale: November 3, 2009
480 pages ISBN: 1594489769 EAN: 9781594489761 Hardcover Add to Wish List
With his three critically acclaimed novels, Chang-rae Lee
has established himself as one of the most talented writers
of contemporary literary fiction. Now, with The
Surrendered, Lee has created a book that amplifies
everything we've seen in his previous works, and reads like
nothing else. It is a brilliant, haunting, heartbreaking
story about how love and war inalterably change the lives of
those they touch.
June Han was only a girl when the
Korean War left her orphaned; 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 attentions of
Sylvie Tanner, the beautiful yet deeply damaged missionary
wife whose elusive love seemed to transform everything.
Thirty years later and on the other side of the world, June
and Hector are reunited in a plot that will force them to
come to terms with the mysterious secrets of their past, and
the shocking acts of love and violence that bind them
together.
As Lee 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. Combining the complex themes of identity
and belonging of Native Speaker and A Gesture
Life with the broad range, energy, and pure storytelling
gifts of Aloft, Chang-rae Lee has delivered his most
ambitious, exciting, and unforgettable work yet. It is a
mesmerizing novel, elegantly suspenseful and deeply affecting.
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