Nanjing Requiem (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307743732)

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 painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle, day after day, to intercede on the behalf of the hapless victims. Yet even when order and civility are restored, she remains deeply embattled, always haunted by the lives she could not save.

At once a searing story that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century and an indelible portrait of a singular and brave woman, Nanjing Requiem is another tour de force from the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting.

Author: Ha Jin
ISBN-10: 030774373X
ISBN-13: 9780307743732
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/02/2012
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.41h x 8.01w x 0.66d
Award: Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Runner-Up

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/04/2012 pg. 24
Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 47