Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Ocean of Words Ocean of Words Ha Jin *Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award* The 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 … OL14552W
The Crazed The Crazed Ha Jin "In his new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of contemporary Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, l… OL14555W
Waiting Waiting Ha Jin,Ha Jin For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a 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… OL14557W
A map of betrayal A map of betrayal Ha Jin "From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United Stat… OL17719512W
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 Anthony Doerr,Marisa Silver,A. S. Byatt,Nadine Gordimer,Miller, L. E.,Laura Furman,Ha Jin,Graham Joyce,Tim O'Brien,Junot Díaz,Karen Brown,Judy Troy,Paul Yoon,John Burnside,Andrew Sean Greer,Alistair Morgan,Roger Nash,Paul Theroux,Viet Dinh,Caitlin Horrocks,Kristen Sundberg Lundstrum,E V Slate,Mohan Sikka,Manuel Muñoz An ordinary soldier of the queen / Graham Joyce The nursery / Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Purple bamboo park / E.V. Slate The bell ringer / John Burnside Uncle Musto takes a mistress / Mohan Sikka … OL17921689W
Nanjing requiem Nanjing requiem Ha Jin During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee cente… OL20979163W
War trash War trash Ha Jin This unforgettable novel tells the story, in memoir form, of Yu Yuan, a young Chinese army officer, one of a corps of 'volunteers' sent by Mao to help shore up the communist side in Korea. When Yu is… OL24307254W