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...
A Map of Betrayal: A Novel (Vintage I...
Ha JinA 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li B...
Ha JinIn 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,...
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...