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Überraschend erhält Lilian Shang, in den USA geboren und aufgewachsen, nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern das Tagebuch ihres Vaters. Gary Shang arbeitete mehr als dreißig Jahre lang als Maulwurf bei der CIA und war einer der wichtigsten Spione Chinas - bis er 1980 durch eine Unachtsamkeit aufflog. Lilian ist tief bewegt von den Zeilen ihres Vaters, die ihr den schmerzvollen Preis offenbaren, den er für dieses Doppelleben zahlen musste. Jahrzehnte, nach...

Aravind Adiga, Mohsin Hamid und Taiye Selasi stehen weltweit auf den Bestsellerlisten und zeugen von einem Bedürfnis nach Geschichten über das Leben zwischen den Kulturen. Oder Namen wie Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Alexander Solschenyzin, Joseph Conrad und Wladimir Nabokov - sie alle verbindet eine Existenz und ein Schreiben an fremdem Ort, mal als Zwischenstopp, mal für immer, mal von Geburt an. Für den aus China stammenden US-Autor Ha Jin...

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Una hermosa metáfora de un microcosmos social.En contraste con los postulados del supuesto paraíso maoísta, Shoa Bin, que trabaja en la fábrica de una comuna, se ve obligado a vivir con su familia en una incómoda habitación. Tras seis años esperando un piso, su decepción es mayúscula cuando ve que el director de la fábrica otorga ese privilegio a trabajadores menos cualificados. Shao Bin toma entonces una arriesgada decisión...

It's 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women's College, decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and ...

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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 provincial Chinese town.Shao Bin is a downtrodden worker at the Harvest Fertilizer Plant by day and an aspiring artist by night. Passed over on the list to receive a decent apartment for his young family, while those ...

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Meet the Wu family--father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. They are arranging to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to begin a new, free life in the United States. At first, their future seems well-assured. But after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan's disillusionment turns him toward his first love, poetry. Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs as Pingping works f...

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From the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, a collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful. In the title story, the head of security at a factory is shocked, first when the hansomest worker on the floor proposes marriage to his homely adopted daughter, and again when his new son-in-law is arre...

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 "volunteer” army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Parallel. Because he speaks English, he soon becomes an intermediary between his compatriots and their American captors.With Yuan as guide, we are ...