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Little, Brown has acquired a new novel by Chang-Rae Lee for a five figure deal. Editorial director Richard Beswick bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Hal Fessenden, director of subsidiary rights at Penguin US.
The Surrendered was described by Little, Brown as an "epic and majestic story" with "full-blooded and memorable characters" and compared it to Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance and Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible.
The book ranges from China in the 1930s, to post-war Korea in the 1950s and New York and Italy in the 1980s. It follows the search for a missing son.
Little, Brown will publish the title in hardback in May 2010 and as an Abacus paperback the following year.
Lee won the PEN/Hemingway Award for his first novel Native Speaker (Granta). He has subsequently written a couple of other novels, A Gesture Life (Granta) and Aloft (Bloomsbury).