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Armchair Adventurer: Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin

Armchair Adventurer: Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin

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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Nanjing Requiem, by Ha Jin, is “Rich” and “Powerful,” Says The New York Times

Nanjing Requiem, by Ha Jin, is “Rich” and “Powerful,” Says The New York Times

From the award winning author of Waiting and War Trash, comes an extraordinary new novel that retells the brutal invasion and occupation of Nanjing by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1937.
“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 [...]

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From the National Book Award-Winning Author of Waiting

From the National Book Award-Winning Author of Waiting

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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A Guide to Ha Jin’s First Novel and Two Short Story Collections

A Guide to Ha Jin’s First Novel and Two Short Story Collections

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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.

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Ha Jin Discusses A Good Fall on NPR’s On Point

Ha Jin Discusses A Good Fall on NPR’s On Point

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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Huffington Post’s Top 10 Books of 2009

Huffington Post’s Top 10 Books of 2009

The Huffington Post named Ha Jin’s A Good Fall #7 of the top 10 books of 2009, stating that this collection “may be Ha Jin’s best work yet,” with the “stories often ascending to the mystical penumbra we expect of Singer, Malamud, or O’Connor.”

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A Good Fall Now on Sale

A Good Fall Now on Sale

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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