A Tender Age
$31.19
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2026
Summary
From the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence
A 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. A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781398562950 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1398562955 |
| Author: | Chang-rae Lee |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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Praise for Chang-rae Lee
‘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
About The Author
Chang-rae Lee
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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