The Surrendered  Chang-rae Lee - Author  Paperback | $16.00 |
add to cart | view cart ISBN 9781594485015 | 496 pages | 01 Mar
2011 | Riverhead | 8.26 x 5.23in | 18 - AND UP Additional
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bestselling and award-winning author of Native Speaker, A
Gesture Life, and Aloft 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.    Korea, 1950   The night was unusually chilly, the
wind sharpened by the speed of the train as it rolled southward
through the darkened valley. The cotton blanket June had stolen
was large enough to spre