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A Free Life by Ha Jin
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A "New York Times" Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: "Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate"In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family -- father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao -- as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at ...Show more
Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai by Ha Jin
Category: Biography
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai--also known as Li Po In his own time (701-762), Li Bai's poems--shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life--were never give ...Show more
Crazed by Ha Jin
Category: Fiction
In his powerful new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a s ...Show more
In the Pond by Ha Jin
Category: Fiction
Ha Jin has been compared to the late Issac Babel for his spare evocation of ordinary lives caught up in the flux of vast social movements. Winner of the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction for his story collection Under the Red Flag, Ha Jin is a writer of stark power, simple beauty and poignant irony. ...Show more
Nanjing Requiem: A Novel by Ha Jin
Category: Fiction
It’s 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College, decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painf ...Show more
The Banished Immortal - A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin
Category: Biography
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting- a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai-also known as Li Po In his own time (701-762), Li Bai's poems-shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life-were never given the ...Show more
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash- an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea,and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news age ...Show more
The Crazed by Ha Jin
Category: Fiction
In 'The Crazed', Ha Jin deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Ji ...Show more
The Woman Back from Moscow - In Pursuit of Beauty by Ha Jin
Category: Fiction
As a promising young actress, Sun Weishi made the critical decision to pursue her studies in Moscow - with the blessing of her influential adoptive father, Zhou Enlai, and Mao himself. The valuable insights she gained there during World War II, most notably the significance of characters' inner lives, w ...Show more