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Waiting

by Ha Jin
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Waiting
Waiting

Love entwined in tradition's tenacious grip.

"Waiting" is a poignant exploration of love constrained by societal norms. As you walk through Lin Kong's life, you navigate the complex terrain of duty versus desire. Ha Jin paints a deeply moving portrait of a man caught between modern affection and traditional obligation. This book speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever struggled with the choices that define us.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2000)
  • National Book Award for Fiction (1999)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2000)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Waiting

by Ha Jin
$8.90 $5.90 34% off
$5.31 Thryft Club Member Price
ISBN: 9780099285892
Authors: Ha Jin
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date of Publication: 2000-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Related Topics: Japanese Literature, Asian Literature, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.54
(rated by 22220 readers)

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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 the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every year he visits her 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. Waiting charms and startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.
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Love entwined in tradition's tenacious grip.

"Waiting" is a poignant exploration of love constrained by societal norms. As you walk through Lin Kong's life, you navigate the complex terrain of duty versus desire. Ha Jin paints a deeply moving portrait of a man caught between modern affection and traditional obligation. This book speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever struggled with the choices that define us.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2000)
  • National Book Award for Fiction (1999)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2000)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.