Waiting by Ha Jin - ISBN: 9781841594293
Hardcover
A doctor, two women, and a lifetime caught in cultural divides.

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  • Hardcover

    328 pages

  • Release Date

    2 September 2025

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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:212mm x 134mm x 26mm
Series:Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
About The Author

Ha Jin

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 for the USA. He is the author of six novels, including Waiting - winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award - In the Pond, The Crazed, and his latest, Nanjing Requiem. He has also published four collections of stories and four volumes of poetry. He lives near Boston and teaches at Boston University.

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