Waiting A Novel

Name: Waiting A Novel
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ISBN: 9780375706417

ISBN-10: 0375706410

ISBN-13: 9780375706417

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Authors: Ha Jin

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"In Waiting, Ha Jin portrays the life of Lin Kong, a dedicated doctor torn by his love for two women: one who belongs to the New China of the Cultural Revolution, the other to the ancient traditions of his family's village. Ha Jin profoundly understands the conflict between the individual and society, between the timeless universality of the human heart and constantly shifting politics of the moment. With wisdom, restraint, and empathy for all his characters, he vividly reveals the complexities and subtleties of a world and a people we desperately need to know."--Judges' Citation, National Book Award "Ha Jin's novel could hardly be less theatrical, yet we're immediately engaged by its…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.94" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.550
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.