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Waiting (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375706417)
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xWinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - National Book Award Winner - Pulitzer Prize Finalist - A New York Times Notable Book
From the widely acclaimed author--a rich and atmospheric novel about a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women. The demands of human longing contend with the weight of centuries of custom in acclaimed author Ha Jin's Waiting, a novel of unexpected richness and universal resonance. Every summer Lin Kong, a doctor in the Chinese Army, returns to his village to end his loveless arranged marriage with the humble and touchingly loyal Shuyu. But each time Lin must return to the city to tell Manna Wu, the educated, modern nurse he loves, that they will have to postpone their engagement once again. Caught between the conflicting claims of these two utterly different women and trapped by a culture in which adultery can ruin lives and careers, Lin has been waiting for eighteen years. This year, he promises will be different. "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
Author: Ha Jin
ISBN-10: 0375706410
ISBN-13: 9780375706417
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2000
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.22w x 0.72d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 32563 / Waiting
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/24/2000 pg. 32
New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 109
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1999 pg. 46
From the widely acclaimed author--a rich and atmospheric novel about a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women. The demands of human longing contend with the weight of centuries of custom in acclaimed author Ha Jin's Waiting, a novel of unexpected richness and universal resonance. Every summer Lin Kong, a doctor in the Chinese Army, returns to his village to end his loveless arranged marriage with the humble and touchingly loyal Shuyu. But each time Lin must return to the city to tell Manna Wu, the educated, modern nurse he loves, that they will have to postpone their engagement once again. Caught between the conflicting claims of these two utterly different women and trapped by a culture in which adultery can ruin lives and careers, Lin has been waiting for eighteen years. This year, he promises will be different. "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
Author: Ha Jin
ISBN-10: 0375706410
ISBN-13: 9780375706417
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2000
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.22w x 0.72d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 32563 / Waiting
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/24/2000 pg. 32
New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 109
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1999 pg. 46
By Ha Jin
xHa Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award, and War Trash, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; the story collections The Bridegroom, which won the Asian American Literary Award, Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the novels The Crazed and In the Pond; and three books of poetry. His latest novel, A Free Life is his first novel set in the United States. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.
War Trash, The Crazed, The Bridegroom, Waiting, In the Pond, and Ocean of Words are available in paperback from Vintage Books.
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