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Waiting : by Ha Jin, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, Hardcover Dust Jacket Unread
US $19.99
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A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- Yes
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- Era
- 1990s
- Personalized
- Yes
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780375406539
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375406530
ISBN-13
9780375406539
eBay Product ID (ePID)
709116
Product Key Features
Book Title
Waiting : a Novel
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-021334
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Compassionate, earthy, robust, and wise, Waiting blends provocative allegory with all-too-human comedy. The result touches and reveals, bringing to life a singular world in its spectacular intricacy." -- Gish Jen, author ofWho's Irish? "A remarkable love story. Ha Jin's understanding of the human heart and the human condition transcends borders and time.Waitingis an outstanding literary achievement." -- Lisa See, author ofOn Gold Mountain "A deceptively simple tale, written with extraordinary precision and grace. Ha Jin has established himself as one of the great sturdy realists still writing in a postmodern age." --Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction! InWaiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young--a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different. Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom. Waiting charms and startles us with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves us with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.
LC Classification Number
PS3560.I6W34 1999
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