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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Surrender
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'As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant, punitive parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child. He has only two friends - his dog, Surrender, and the unruly wild boy, Finnigan, a shadowy doppelganger with whom the meek Gabriel once made a boyhood pact. But when a series of arson attacks grips the town, Gabriel realizes how unpredictable and dangerous Finnigan is. As events begin to spiral violently out of control, it becomes devastatingly clear that only the most extreme measures will rid Gabriel of Finnigan for good'. Source: publisher's website.

Notes

  • Dedication: for Dmetri Kakmi
  • Included on the United States Board on Books for Young People and the Children's Book Council (US) 2006 Outstanding International Booklist.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Intellectual disabilities.
    Type of character Tertiary.
    Point of view First person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2005 .
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      Extent: 245p.
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      • Published January 1, 2005
      ISBN: 0670028711 (hbk.)
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Walker Books [London] ,
      2005 .
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      Extent: 250p.
      Note/s:
      • Published January 1, 2005
      ISBN: 1844286568
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Candlewick Press ,
      2006 .
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      Extent: 248p.
      Edition info: 1st US ed.
      Note/s:
      • Published February 14th 2006
      ISBN: 0763627682 (hbk.)
    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin Books , 2006 .
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      Courtesy of Penguin Books Australia.
      Extent: 252p.
      ISBN: 0143001582 (pbk.)
Alternative title: サレンダー
Transliterated title: Sarendā
Language: Japanese
    • Tokyo, Honshu,
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      Japan,
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      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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      河出書房新社 ,
      2008 .
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      Extent: 252p.
      ISBN: 9784309205113; 4309205119

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Works about this Work

“Beyond the Boundaries :” Negotiations of Space, Place, Body and Subjectivity in YA Fiction Caroline Hamilton-McKenna , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , September vol. 52 no. 3 2021; (p. 307-325)
'Where and how do I belong? As Erin Spring (2016a) notes in her examination of space, place, and youth engagement with literature, “young adult fiction is fraught with implications for identity, of which place often takes center stage” (p. 432). Yet despite the ubiquity of adolescent characters’ negotiations within and across physical and cultural spaces in contemporary texts for young people, few scholars address the interconnectedness of those spheres with perceptions of subjectivity and the material body. Drawing on the theoretical framework of feminist cultural geography (Massey, 1994; Rose, 1993) and relevant scholarship on conceptualizations of the body (i.e., Butler, 1990; Longhurst, 2001), I aim to uncover some of the ways in which young protagonists respond to the perceived barriers, boundaries, and borders of their bodies, subjectivities, and worlds—including the subtle ways in which they actively shape and redefine them (Bavidge, 2006). In addition to examining the experiences of displaced or somehow othered protagonists in three works of youth fiction—Sonya Harnett’s Surrender, Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, and Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out & Back Again—I consider how literary spatial analyses of subjectivity and body might enable readers to critically reflect on the real world constraints and freedoms encountered by young people across the spaces and places of their everyday lives.' (Publication abstract)
Escaping Adolescence : Sonya Hartnett's Surrender as a Gothic Bildungsroman for the Twenty-first Century Adam Kealley , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature in Education , December vol. 48 no. 4 2017; (p. 295-307)

'This paper explores the subversion of the bildungsroman in the young adult novel, Surrender (Penguin, Camberwell, 2005), by the Australian author, Sonya Hartnett. It is suggested that, in reinscribing the traditional bildungsroman within a Gothic discourse, this novel reveals the effect on subjectivity that the horrors of postmodernity pose for the contemporary adolescent. The employment of Gothic tropes to depict the journey of the narrator, Anwell, highlights the trauma of locating an agentic subject position in a context where authoritative social institutions have been revealed as corrupt. In such a world, typical pathways to agency are problematised. Traditional bildungsroman novels suggest agency is attained by finding one’s place in the world, most often in accordance with socially prescribed schemata, although some contemporary examples confer agency through rebellion or resistance instead. Surrender posits a controversial alternative, suggesting that embracing abjection and, ultimately, death, may be considered a legitimate—if transgressive—form of agency for the othered adolescent. Rather than finding a place in the world that Anwell sees as having failed him, he demonstrates a subversive form of agency in choosing to escape from this world entirely.'

From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, Death Is Getting Darker in Children’s Books Erin Farrow , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 12 July 2017;

'The inevitable and universal nature of death has made it a popular topic of children’s literature. While death has appeared in these stories for centuries, death in young adult novels has become much darker and more complex.' (Introduction)

Disrupted Narrative Voices and the Representation of Trauma in Sonya Hartnett’s Surrender and Kalinda Ashton’s The Danger Game Jennifer Phillips , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Language and Semiotic Studies , Winter vol. 1 no. 4 2015; (p. 108-120)

'In this paper [the author] will consider the intersection between family tragedy, trauma, and affective uses of narration in two Australian novels: Surrender (Hartnett, 2005) and The Danger Game (Ashton, 2009). In both of these novels, narratological techniques are utilised to represent a grief beyond words—the tragic loss of a close family member, specifically, a sibling. Both novels use disruptions in narrative forms—particularly in the inherent expectations readers bring to the forms of first, second and third person narration. These narrative disruptions mirror the disruptions of identity experienced by the characters in these texts. Moreover, as we engage with the traumatic content through a fractured subjectivity presented by these texts, our identities as readers, too, become fractured and disrupted. These disruptions of identity echo that which is experienced by the characters themselves through their loss. By analysing the link between these disruptions and the content of these novels, we get a better understanding of the ways in which fictive worlds can represent psychological issues. The narration of these novels and their engagement with childhood sibling loss enable us to begin to create and understand a broader aesthetic of representational trauma.'

Source: Abstract.

What I’m Reading Lily Stojcevski , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2014;
Submit to the Intrigue Katharine England , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 February 2005; (p. 9)

— Review of Surrender Sonya Hartnett , 2005 single work novel
A Risky Venture Done with Style Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 February 2005; (p. 9)

— Review of Surrender Sonya Hartnett , 2005 single work novel
Surrender to Success Peter Craven , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 February 2005; (p. 8-9)

— Review of Surrender Sonya Hartnett , 2005 single work novel
A Blighted Life in Finnigan's Wake Dianne Dempsey , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 19 February 2005; (p. 5)

— Review of Surrender Sonya Hartnett , 2005 single work novel
Domestic Darkness Michelle Dicinoski , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 February 2005; (p. 7)

— Review of Surrender Sonya Hartnett , 2005 single work novel
Growing Up With a Heart of Darkness Christopher Bantick , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 January 2005; (p. 13)
Know the Author : Sonya Hartnett Felicity Carter , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 20 no. 2 2005; (p. 14-16)
YA Lit and the Deathly Fellows Patty Campbell , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , May/June vol. 84 no. 3 2008; (p. 357-361)
Discusses recent young adult novels and short stories that have a narrator that is dead or dying, or other speaking characters that are dead.
A Printz Retrospective Jonathan Hunt , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Horn Book Magazine , July/August vol. 85 no. 4 2009; (p. 395-403)
Discusses the winners of the Michael L. Printz Award from 2000 to 2009.
Looking between the Lines Edgar Ray (fl. 2010-2011) , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 14 May 2011; (p. 24-25)
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