The Surrendered

Exploring themes of identity, belonging, war and memory, love and mercy, Chang-rae Lee's latest novel, The Surrendered, spans decades and continents in its spell-blinding story about how love and war can reverberate through a lifetime. June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, outlived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to tell, and thirty years after her escape from war-ravaged Korea, the time has come for her to confront them and peer into a legacy of shocking acts of violence and love that could only be rendered in a time of war. 469p.