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Chang-rae Lee - Tender Age, Inbunden

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Tender Age

Av Chang-rae Lee

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'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' Los Angeles Times'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.' Jhumpa Lahiri'A frighteningly accurate depic­tion of adolescence that offers no easy answers… Another powerful work from one of America’s best authors.’ Boston Globe starred reviewFrom the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence‘Lee’s latest novel is a tale of almosts: a family of working-class immigrants almost living the American dream; an 11-year-old boy, almost transitioning into adulthood and straddling the worlds of his doting Korean parents and a semi-feral gaggle of neighborhood kids.’ New York Times Most Anticipated Books of 2026A spellbinding exploration of masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age joins the rich tradition of the coming-of-age novel. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot, and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns eleven, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family.Devastating in its emotional precision, A Tender Age captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away - then thinking about it for the rest of his life.‘Chang-rae Lee can do no wrong in my mind – I devoured Lee’s last novel, My Year Abroad, and I can’t wait for this one.’ LitHub
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-14
  • Mått: 153 x 234 x 26 mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 368
  • Förlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781398562943
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Chang-rae Lee is the author of six other novels, including Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A 2021 winner of the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.

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Praise for Chang-rae Lee ‘A brilliant novel about a son of Korean immigrants who contends with rac­ism and various distresses incurred in growing up in the ’70s U.S…  Coming-of-age stories can be mawkish, but not Lee’s novel… nuanced and dramatically rich, [it presents] a frighteningly accurate depic­tion of adolescence that offers no easy answers… Another powerful work… from one of America’s best authors’ Boston Globe starred review 'Moving... A classic bildungsroman... The pathos of A Tender Age lies in... the malleability of the self, the rawness of experience and seemingly endless capacity to be wounded.' New York Times'What sets A Tender Age apart is its layered narration, in which a reflective adult and resurrected child together lead the reader onward as Lee strings threats of violence through the text, building thrillerlike tension... a tour-de-force.' Atlantic 'Mr. Lee has wonderfully evoked the unmatched urgency of this period of childhood, when everything, from a footrace to a girl’s smile, feels like a matter of life and death.' Wall Street Journal'I have no choice but to ask: Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' Los Angeles Times 'Nothing is rushed; nothing is overlooked… Lee understands that in art and in stories what is perhaps most valuable is not what can be explained but what can be felt.' Boston Globe 'The prose Chang-rae Lee writes is elliptical, riddling, poetic...beautifully made.' New Yorker '[Chang-rae Lee] explores the fundamental human desires to be seen and to love.' Washington Post 'Lee’s writing style, as usual, is alive with wit and satiric social commentary… boisterous and fun.' US National Public Radio

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