Ha Jin

• Jul-1998
• / General Fiction
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“The spirit of a rural town during China's Cultural Revolution is captured” in this Flannery O’Connor Award-winning short story collection (Publishers Weekly).   The acclaimed poet Ha Jin was raised in China and emigrated to the United Sta...

• Aug-1998
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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway AwardThe place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers...

• Oct-1999
• / Literary
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • National Book Award Winner • Pulitzer Prize Finalist • A New York Times Notable BookFrom the widely acclaimed author -- a rich and atmospheric novel about a man living in two worlds, struggling ...

• Mar-2000
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National Book Award-winner Ha Jin's arresting debut novel ,  In the Pond, is a darkly funny portrait of an amateur calligrapher who wields his delicate artist's brush as a weapon against the powerful party bureaucrats who rule his provincia...

• Oct-2000
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By turns comical and deeply moving, the stories in The Bridegroom--by the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his celebrated novel Waiting--present a portrait of contemporary China spiked with elements ...

• Nov-2002
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A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post, Los Angeles times, and San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the YearHa Jin’s seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of...

• Oct-2004
• / Literary
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Ha Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao’s ...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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From Ha Jin, the widely-acclaimed, award-winning author of Waiting and War 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 ti...

• Dec-2009
• / General Fiction
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In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 (Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone.--Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award-winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chine...

• Oct-2011
• / Literary
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The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing. In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Mi...

• Sep-2014
• / General Fiction
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From one of our most celebrated contemporary writers, winner of the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award: Ha Jin’s staggering story “Alive,” from the collection The Bridegroom. Tong Guhan is a regular businessman, husband, and father, try...

• Nov-2014
• / Historical
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Lilian Shang, a history professor in Maryland, knew that her father, Gary, had been the most important Chinese spy ever caught in the United States. But when she discovers his diary after the death of her parents, its pages reveal the full pain and l...

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency whose website is read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin’s explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers -- and feared by Communis...

• Aug-2021
• / General Fiction
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From the universally admired, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Waiting -- a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States   At the end of a U.S. to...

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction
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Through the life of a remarkable woman -- based on pioneering stage director Sun Weishi (1921�"1968) -- this epic novel immerses us in the multifaceted history of China’s Communist Party. A powerful, insightful account from the National ...