
The Surrendered
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Narrated by:
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James Yaegashi
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Chang-Rae Lee
At the end of the Korean War, the lives of orphan June Han and American soldier Hector Brennan collide. Thirty years later, they meet again and are forced to come to terms with the secrets of their devastating past.
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Critic reviews
“Lee’s masterful fourth novel bursts with drama and human anguish as it documents the ravages and indelible effects of war.” ( Publishers Weekly)
"[C]ompletely engrossing story of great complexity and tragedy" ( Library Journal)
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A sorrowful haunt, gorgeous storytelling!
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Engrossing Portrayal of the Effect of War
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Miserable
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this bibliophile could not finish this book
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YAWN!
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The story line is unbelievable, even for historical, wartime fiction, and I'm not talking about the brutality of the combatants. There's not a single happy character in the lot, and the one who comes closest is a drug addict. As one other reviewer put it, Lee's use of tropes is just nauseating. I can't tell if he's trying too hard to impress readers or himself by twisting every description into something symbolic and deep, or whether he just can't make himself write cleanly and concisely.
The narrator needs to find a new line of work. He was just not good in any way, shape or form. I know that sounds mean, but it's the truth, I'm sorry to say.
To think that this book is up for a Pulitzer Prize is purely astonishing. It's such a bad nomination that it makes me think so much less of the Pulitzer Prize itself--a marker by which I've often bought books. Just as shocking is the fact that Lee is a professor of literature at Princeton! Who knows? Maybe he teaches better than he writes.
Unlike the other reviewer who simply gave up on the book, I finished it out of respect to Lee and the fact that I paid for it. Frankly I wish I'd bailed out, because the ending was not even close to being worth it. Sorry, Chang-Rae, you're a very nice man, but I can't imagine letting anyone else read this book without fair warning
Save yourself the trouble, a total disappointment
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Really. Bad. Book.
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