Free Life

Name: Free Life
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ISBN: 9780307278609

ISBN-10: 0307278603

ISBN-13: 9780307278609

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Authors: Ha Jin

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From Ha Jin, the widely-acclaimed, award-winning author ofWaitingandWar Trash, comes a novel that takes his fiction to a new setting: 1990s America. We follow the Wu family--father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao--as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and begin a new, free life in the United States. At first, their future seems well-assured--Nan’s graduate work in political science at Brandeis University would guarantee him a teaching position in China--but after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan’s disillusionment turns him towards his first love, poetry. Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 5.28" wide x 8.04" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 and is now a professor of English at Emory University. He is author of, among other works, two short-story collections: Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for fiction in 1999. He lives in Atlanta.