Description: Waiting, Hardcover by Jin, Ha; Khong, Rachel (INT), ISBN 1101908491, ISBN-13 9781101908495, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction! In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years, this 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 the wife his family chose for him when he was young--a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different. Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom. Waiting charms and startles us with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves us with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.
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Book Title: Waiting : Introduction by Rachel Khong
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Literary, Asian American, Historical
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 16.4 Oz
Author: Ha Jin
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Book Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
