Waiting
$31.10
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2025
Summary
A 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the award-winning, bestselling novel about a man living in two worlds and 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 hu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594293 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1841594296 |
| Author: | Ha Jin |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 468g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 134mm x 212mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Ha Jin
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of eight novels, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a biography of Li Bai, and a book of essays.
He has received the National Book Award, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. In 2014 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He lives in the Boston area and is a professor in the creative writing program at Boston University.
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