Summary
‘Reading Ha Jin is almost like falling in love’ New Yorker
Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang’s daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family… Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099444886 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099444887 |
| Author: | Ha Jin |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2003 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Expertly done
Expertly done * Daily Mail *A compelling book… [Jin] has a fine sense of the human scale of history and an eye for the absurd * Guardian *[Jin’s] new novel…again demonstrates his literary gifts * The Times *A fascinating tale told with skill and eloquence; a truly wonderful read * Publishing News *The Crazed…is a complicated web of human attachments. Like the best realist writers, Ha Jin sneaks emotional power into the plainest declarative sentences * New Yorker *
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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