{"product_id":"a-tender-age-chang-rae-lee","title":"A Tender Age (Chang-Rae Lee)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.' Jhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Chang-rae Lee can do no wrong in my mind - I devoured Lee's last novel, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Year Abroad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, and I can't wait for this one.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLitHub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'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.' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost Anticipated Books of 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA spellbinding exploration of masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, \u003ci\u003eA Tender Age\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDevastating in its emotional precision, \u003ci\u003eA Tender Age\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eChang-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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Paperback - Trade paperback (UK), Englisch, 368 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66025956278621,"sku":"K010919333","price":15.1,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1091933300001A.jpg?v=1790280637","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/a-tender-age-chang-rae-lee","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}