Waiting

Type

Book

Authors

Jin, Ha

ISBN 10

0375406530

ISBN 13

9780375406539

Tags

Historical, United States, Literary, China, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Physicians, Married people, Psychological fiction, Manners and customs

Abstract

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.

Description

For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. Every summer, he returns to ask her for a divorce and every summer his compliant wife agrees but then backs out.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
History
Fiction
Psychological fiction
Love stories
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Jin, Ha, 1956-
Waiting.
New York : Pantheon Books, ©1999
(OCoLC)647137502
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ha Jin
ISBN: 0375406530 9780375406539 0375706410 9780375706417 9780756903886 0756903882 0099287595 9780099287599
OCLC Number: 40901149
Language Note: English.
Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2000.
Description: 308 pages ; 22 cm
Responsibility: Ha Jin.

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