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Ocean of Words
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*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 … |
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The Crazed
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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… |
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Waiting
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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… |
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A map of betrayal
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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… |
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The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
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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
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Nanjing requiem
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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… |
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War trash
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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… |
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