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Chang-Rye Lee who is 1.5 generation in Koreans living in America published four full-length novels. 『Native Speaker』(1995), 『Gesture Life』(1999), 『Aloft』(2004) and 『The Surrendered』(2010) are all his works. 『Gesture Life』is comparable to 『The Surrendered』in many ways. Major characters in the novels have experiences of the Korean War or Pyongyang War, and almost every characters of them have lived in America. Most important thing is that both works have Double-epic structure crossing the present and the past. And It is also important that children of major characters is half- Korean that mean the future is quite bright. 『Gesture Life』presents the past repeatedly in the present life, it works to expose the falsity of the present life, and it also works that a narrator takes a new life by exposing the falsity. On the other hand a third-person narrator of 『The Surrendered』co-opts main characters and concentrates to redintegrate the each past of them. It is to organize the stagnant current caused by wounds of war, resurrect the visuospatial memory of past, and stare at the inside. Children of major characters of both novels is half-Korean, they lead characters who is internalized racism to deep reflection and play a role that provides a new starting point in the stagnant current. And they don’t have a negative view of their own identity, don’t live their life shackled to the past or the marginal person and try to live their own life. Especially Nicholas and Solferino in 『The Surrendered』 symbolize the peaceful future of the hybrid and mixed.