Summary
The winner of the 1999 US National Book Award for Fiction, a poignant and deliciously funny love story, set in China during and after the Cultural Revolution.
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in his traditional home village lives the humble, loyal wife his family chose for him years ago. Every summer, he returns to ask her for a divorce and every summer his compliant wif…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099287599 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099287595 |
| Author: | Ha Jin |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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Beautiful and compelling
Beautiful and compelling * Daily Mail *
Dreamy and beautifully written… Reading it will take you into a different world altogether * Marie Claire *
A deliciously comic novel * The Times *
Imagine if Romeo and Juliet had been made to stretch out their passion for 18 years, without consummating their love. Now imagine them in China during the crazy bureaucracy of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, unable to talk in private let alone kiss…the insights into Chinese culture and the complexities of human longing are beautiful and compelling * Daily Mail *
A classic folktale…an extraordinary novel * Independent *
About The Author
Ha Jin
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 for the USA. He is the author of three novels, Waiting - winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2000 PEN/ Faulkner Award - In the Pond, The Crazed, three collections of stories and three volumes of poetry. He lives near Boston and teaches at Boston University.
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