The Surrendered Changrae Lee by Chang-rae Lee 9781101181171, 1101181176 instant download after payment.

The bestselling and award-winning author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft returns with his most ambitious novel yet - amplifying everything we've seen in his previous works.  and reading like nothing else. The Surrendered is a brilliant, haunting, heartbreaking story about how love and war inalterably change the lives of those they touch.

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 attentions of Sylvie Tanner, a beautiful yet deeply damaged missionary. 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, Chang-Rae Lee has delivered a mesmerizing novel, elegantly suspenseful and deeply affecting.

"This novel, his fourth, gathers life greedily, hungrily, but with a certain stealth: Lee doesn’t bolt it all down at once, as the refugee children in his story do. The Surrendered, his largest, most ambitious book, is about the horrors of war and the sorrows of survival, yet its manner is quiet, watchful, expectant, as if everyone, including Lee himself, were waiting to see what might accrue ... "  -  Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review

Chang-Rae Lee is a Korean-American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Stanford University. He was previously a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton and director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing.