Ha Jin

A 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the award-winning, bestselling novel about a man living in two worlds and struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women. The demands of human longing contend with the weight of centuries of custom in acclaimed author Ha Jin's Waiting, a novel of unexpected richness and universal resonance. Every summer, Lin Kong, a...

A Harvard student from China discovers the fraught, hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre in this powerful novel of protest and suppression from the National Book Award-winning author. One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year A Harvard student from China discovers the fraught, hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre in this powerful novel of protest...

Novelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalising world. Consisting of three interconnected essays, The Writer as Migrant sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across cultures and between eras. He employs the cases of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Chinese novelist Lin Yutang...

Through the life of a remarkable woman—based on pioneering stage director Sun Weishi (1921-1968)—this epic novel immerses us in the multifaceted history of China's Communist Party. The Woman Back from Moscow is a powerful, insightful account from the National Book Award-winning author, who came of age during the Cultural Revolution. As a promising young actress, Sun Weishi made the critical...