Waiting by Ha Jin Paperback Book

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Author: Ha Jin

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Random House Inc

Published: Sep 2000

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $18.00

Pages: 308

Synopsis

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 married him when they were both very young. National Book Award & Pen/Faulkner Award Winner. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.

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