The Surrendered

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ith his three previous novels, award-winning, bestselling author Chang-rae Lee has established himself as one of the most talented writers of contemporary literary iiction. Now he returns, with his biggest, most ambitious növel yet. A rich, eloquent book exploring themes of identity and belonging, war and memory, love and mercy, The Surrendered takes everything weve seen in Lees previous work and ampliíies it. Spanning decades and continents, it is a spellbinding story about how love and war can echo through a lifetime. June Han has forged a life thousands of miles írom her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, outiived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to teli, and thirty years after her escape from warravaged Korea, the time has come for her to confront them. Hector Brennan, fighter, drinker, and "failure grand and totál," is the man who long ago, in the aítermath of the war, saved June's life. And between June and... Tovább

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ith his three previous novels, award-winning, bestselling author Chang-rae Lee has established himself as one of the most talented writers of contemporary literary iiction. Now he returns, with his biggest, most ambitious növel yet. A rich, eloquent book exploring themes of identity and belonging, war and memory, love and mercy, The Surrendered takes everything weve seen in Lees previous work and ampliíies it. Spanning decades and continents, it is a spellbinding story about how love and war can echo through a lifetime. June Han has forged a life thousands of miles írom her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, outiived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to teli, and thirty years after her escape from warravaged Korea, the time has come for her to confront them. Hector Brennan, fighter, drinker, and "failure grand and totál," is the man who long ago, in the aítermath of the war, saved June's life. And between June and Hector lies the story of the beautiful, damaged missionary wife Sylvie Tanner, whose elusive love they both once sought. On a journey that takes them from the scorched hillsides and abandoned ríce paddies of a shattered Korea to a blood-soaked century-old Italian batdefield, June and Hector go in search of their past, bound together by a legacy of shocking acts of violence and love. Vissza