2 edition of Ha Jin found in the catalog.
Ha Jin
Marc Schumann
Published
2011
by Marshall Cavendish Benchmark in New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Statement | Marc Schumann |
| Series | Today"s writers and their works |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PS3560.I6 Z87 2011 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL25184550M |
| ISBN 10 | 9781608705047, 9781608707607 |
| LC Control Number | 2010048841 |
Ha Jin's novel Waiting was the winner of the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. This quietly poignant novel of love and repression in Communist China begins in when Lin Kong, an army doctor, falls in love with the young nurse Manna Wu during a forced military march. short story by Ha Jin OUR GRANDCHILDREN HATE US. The boy and the girl, ages eleven and nine, are just a pair of selfish, sloppy brats and have no respect for old people. Mandi went to the public library and checked out a book on baby names. She perused .
Ha Jin might have thought of this poem during cold nights outside Boston. (In “To an Ancient Chinese Poet,” he imagines Li Bai on a drunken night with a shy moon. A Good Fall. Stories. By Ha Jin (Pantheon; pages; $) Multiculturism is a luxury, especially to immigrants, to whom being assimilated and accepted in the adopted land is often a far cry.
Waiting Ha Jin, Author Pantheon Books $24 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Coming to America; Coming to America: A PW Profile of Ha Jin;. A kind of Chinese Dr. Zhivago about a married army doctor who falls in love with a nurse during the Cultural Revolution, by Chinese exile Ha Jin (In the Pond, , etc.). Starred-crossed lovers are the meat of tragedy the world over, and when political upheaval is thrown into the same pot, you—re almost guaranteed a pretty substantial stew.
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Ha Jin has 37 books on Goodreads with ratings. Ha Jin’s most popular book is Waiting. Ha Jin is the pen name of Jin Xuefei, a novelist, poet, short story writer, and Professor of English at Boston Jin writes in English about China, a political decision post-Tiananmen Square/5. Ha Jin, Chinese American writer who used plain, unadorned English prose to explore the tension between the individual and the family, the modern and the traditional, and personal feelings and duty.
His notable novels included Waiting () and War Trash (). National Book Award winner Ha Jin writes about the tribulations of life in Chinese society with dark humor and an economical but effective prose style. He has turned out remarkable novels, short stories, and poetry -- all the more remarkable considering he only began writing in English in the late s.
One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate In A Free Life, Ha Jin Ha Jin book the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 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 Cited by: 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 Chines.
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Xuefei Jin, who writes under the pseudonym Ha Jin, was born in in Liaoning Province in northern China. His father was a military officer. Inat only 14 years of age, Ha Jin joined the People's Liberation Army based at the northeastern border between China and the former Soviet Union.
Ha Jin’s first novel set in the United States is about a Chinese immigrant who works hard to get ahead. an accomplished, respected American writer (a recent National Book Award Winner, in.
Waiting is a novel by Chinese-American author Ha Jin which won the National Book Award that year. It is based on a true story that Jin heard from his wife when they were visiting her family at an army hospital in China.
At the hospital was an army doctor who had waited eighteen years to get a divorce so he could marry his longtime friend, a : Ha Jin. Francine Prose of the New York Times Book Review noted: “Character is fate, or at least some part of fate, and Ha Jin’s achievement is to reveal the ways in which character and society conspire.” Jin’s novels have continued to receive praise for their tragi-comic portrayals of communism’s repressive policies, and the human beings who struggle against them.
Ha Jin, who was born in Liaoning, China, inserved in the People's Liberation Army for six years during the Cultural Revolution. A student of literature since his teens, Jin was studying at Author: Ben Frederick. Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Ha Jin books online. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles.
"Every book is a kind of departure; every book is a step forward, a move away from the past," Ha Jin says of the new novel during a call to his home in Foxboro, Massachusetts, where he and his wife live in a quiet neighborhood on the edge of a state forest. Description: 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. Xuefei Jin is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin. Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry : Poetry, Short story, Novel, Essay.
Free download or read online Waiting pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published inand was written by Ha Jin. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format.
The main characters of this fiction, cultural story are. The book has been awarded with Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction ( /5. John Noell Moore, “The Landscape Of Divorce When Worlds Collide,” The English Journal 92 (Nov. ), pp. – Ha Jin, Waiting (New York: Pantheon Books, ) Neil J Diamant, Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, ), p.
Ha Jin left his native China in to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award, and War Trash, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; the story collections The Bridegroom, which won the Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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.Xuefei Jin is a Chinese-American poet and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin.
He has written different types of books and other essential information’s. He has also written novels. If you want to read his books, then you should buy it.
You can get his books online .Born in China inXuefei Jin (Ha Jin is his pen name) was a teenager when China entered the Cultural Revolution. He became a member of the People’s Liberation Army at the age of fourteen. His novel Waiting, which won him the National Book Award inand the PEN/ Faulkner inwas based on his experiences during his five-year service in the Red Army.
