{"id":6403,"date":"2010-04-16T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:39:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T21:39:25","slug":"the-surrendered-by-chang-rae-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-surrendered-by-chang-rae-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Author Chang-Rae Lee admits that the first chapter of his book is based upon a tragic event in his father’s life — something so traumatic that his father had never disclosed it — until questioned by his then college-aged son.\u00a0 The chapter features June Han, an 11-year-old orphaned refugee during the Korean War, desperately struggling to flee the approaching military with her younger siblings in tow.<\/p>\n

The chapters often leave the reader hanging, wondering what happened, only to open\u00a0the next one to discover\u00a0a new character in a totally different time period.\u00a0We are later introduced to Hector, a handsome American who enlists to fight in Korea, but\u00a0then decides to remain after the war to work in an orphanage.\u00a0 There, his life becomes entwined with June’s and also with Sylvie Tanner, the beautiful wife of the minister who runs the place.\u00a0 But Sylvie’s story reveals her own scarred and tragic past.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We primarily\u00a0see June thirty years\u00a0later, now\u00a0a successful New York antiques dealer who is dying of cancer, as she reunites with a reluctant Hector in a search for her long-lost son.\u00a0 As the book spans three decades and several continents, The Surrendered<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is an epic saga, masterfully written with complex characterization, but also, according to Publisher’s Weekly, “a harrowing tale, bleak, haunting, often heartbreaking — and not to be missed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author Chang-Rae Lee admits that the first chapter of his book is based upon a tragic event in his father’s life — something so traumatic that his father had never disclosed it — until questioned by his then college-aged son.\u00a0 The chapter features June Han, an 11-year-old orphaned refugee during[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[994,933,709,229],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-korea","tag-refugees","tag-tragedy","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1Fh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}