In Nanjing Requiem, Ha Jin, the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing. At once epic and intimate, Nanjing Requiem is the story of an American missionary who bravely takes a stand against the horror and injustice that surrounds her. In this month’s Armchair Adventurer, we explore Nanjing’s complex relationship with the past and its rich cultural fabric in order to provide historical and modern context for the book.
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“Ha Jin brings a cool, spare documentary approach to this rich trove of material…a book that renders a subtle and powerful vision of one of [...]
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom, National Book Award-winning author Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. A Good Fall is now in paperback!
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The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Ha Jin’s first novel, In the Pond, and two of his short fiction collections, Ocean of Words and The Bridegroom.
Listen as guest host Jacki Lyden speaks with Ha Jin on NPR’s On Point about A Good Fall, now on sale from Pantheon Books. National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us this new collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. Kansas City Star calls A Good Fall Ha Jin’s “best work so far,” in its list of the top 100 books of 2009.
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National Book Award–winning Ha Jin presents A Good Fall, an “artfully turned out” (Elle) collection of short stories delving into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America, now on sale from Pantheon Books.
Ha Jin will be appearing at Boston bookstores during the first week of December.
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