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Waiting

Ha Jin

An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he has fallen in love and the traditional, meek, and humble woman to whom his family mar...

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Published: Sep 2000

War Trash

Ha Jin

War Trash, the extraordinary new novel by the National Book Award–winning author of Waiting, is Ha Jin’s most ambitious work to date: a powerful, unflinching story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known...

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Published: May 2005

The Bridegroom: Stories

Ha Jin

This collection of short stories by Chinese-born writer Ha Jin contains meditations on characters in the margin: a homosexual husband, counter help at an American fast-food restaurant, and a happy amnesiac satisfied in his new life. H...

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Published: Sep 2001

A Map of Betrayal: A Novel (Vintage I...

Ha Jin

A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year Lilian Shang, a history professor in Maryland, knew that her father, Gary, had been the most important Chinese spy ever caught in the United States. But when she discovers his diary af...

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Published: Jul 2015

Under the Red Flag

Ha Jin

Winner of the Flannery O Connor award, Under the Red Flag is Ha Jins second collection of stories, after the PEN/Hemingway-winning Ocean of Words. These twelve stories are set on the Russian-Chinese border during the Cultural Revoluti...

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Published: Jun 1998

A Free Life

Ha Jin

A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, SlateIn A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they s...

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Published: Jan 2009

A Good Fall

Ha Jin

In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delv...

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Published: Oct 2010

In the Pond

Ha Jin

In the Pond is a slim little book about some very big issues: power, vanity, art, injustice, and politics. Where Tom Wolfe would find the makings for a doorstop, however, debut novelist Ha Jin has created a rough-cut comic gem. Set ...

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Published: Mar 2000

Nanjing Requiem

Ha Jin

The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing.br brIn 1937, with the Japanese poised to i...

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Published: Oct 2012

Ocean of Words: Stories

Ha Jin

Written by a Chinese expatriate, a collection of short stories about Chinese soldiers caught in the tense stand-off between their native country and Russia in the early 1970s won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Reprint. 15,000 first printing...

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Published: Jul 1998

The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li B...

Ha Jin

In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's brilliant poems—shaped by Daoist thought, filled with an irrepressible lust for life—were never given their proper due. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of tavern singers, soldiers,...

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Published: Dec 2019

The Crazed

Ha Jin

At its best, this has some of the pacing and texture of a skillfully constructed mystery....But the payoff is a letdown: it feels more like a general statement about China's recent history than the result of its characters' fateful in...

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Published: Jan 2004
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