{"product_id":"a-tender-age-by-chang-rae-lee-9781398562950","title":"A Tender Age","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA spellbinding exploration of masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, \u003cem\u003eA Tender Age\u003c\/em\u003e joins the rich tradition of the coming-of-age novel. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, 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\n\u003cp\u003eDevastating in its emotional precision, \u003cem\u003eA Tender Age\u003c\/em\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\n\u003cp\u003e'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.' \u003cstrong\u003eJhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47745220346092,"sku":"9781398562950","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781398562950-a-tender-age.jpg?v=1781495869","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-tender-age-by-chang-rae-lee-9781398562950","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}