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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 the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state. When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a stroke, his student Jian Wan is assigned to ca...

In Waiting, Ha Jin portrays the life of Lin Kong, a dedicated doctor torn by his love for two women: one who belongs to the New China of the Cultural Revolution, the other to the ancient traditions of his family's village. Ha Jin profoundly understands the conflict between the individual and society, between the timeless universality of the human heart and constantly shifting politics of the moment. With wisdom, restraint, and empathy for all ...

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La espera , primera novela del escritor chino Ha Jin, autor que escogió el inglés como medio de expresión, obtuvo en 1999 el National Book Award y el prestigioso PEN/Faulkner Prize de novela. Difícilmente una historia de amor puede aún sorprendernos por su originalidad como ésta, en la que de inmediato nos seduce la odisea de dos seres inmersos en una conjura contra su felicidad . En los años sesenta, en plena Revolución Cultural, un joven m...

Ha Jins new collection of stories depicts the lives of Chinese American immigrants as they struggle to remain attached to their native land and traditions while also exploring their newfound social and economic freedoms.

With the same profound attention to detail that is a hallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction National Book Award winner Ha Jin gives us a collection of stories that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.

With wisdom, restraint, and empathy for all his characters, Ha Jin portrays the life of Lin Kong, a dedicated doctor torn by his love for two women: one who belongs to the New China of the Cultural Revolution, the other to the ancient traditions of his family's village. "A simple love story that transcends cultural barriers. . . . Jin's account of daily life in China is convincing and rich in detail".--"Chicago Tribune".

A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family - father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao - as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes on a number of menial jobs, eventually operating a restaurant with Pingping...

Consisting of three interconnected essays, this book sets Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across cultures and between eras.

National Book Award-winner Ha Jin offers a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. He depicts the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily struggles--some minute, some grand--faced by these intriguing individuals.

Ha Jins new collection of stories depicts the lives of Chinese American immigrants as they struggle to remain attached to their native land and traditions while also exploring their newfound social and economic freedoms.

Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, Under the Red Flag features twelve stories which take place during China's Cultural Revolution--stories which display the earnestness and grandeur of human folly and, in a larger sense, form a moral history of a time and a place.

Jin explores the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism in contemporary China. Unabridged.

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 who must constantly scrutinize the enemy even as they themselves are watched for signs of the fatal disease of bourgeois liberalism.In Ocean of Words, the Chinese writer Ha Jin explores the predic...