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Critical Consensus for 3/11: Chang-rae Lee’s The Surrendered

BNA_Daily | March 11, 2010

As the title suggests, Chang-rae Lee’s latest novel, The Surrendered, is not exactly uplifting, but critics are calling it moving and impossible to forget.  The Surrendered tells the stories of June, Hector, and Sylvie–three characters who come together after experiencing horrifying violence in the Korean War.  June is a young girl when the war (and [...]