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Ha Jin

Waiting: A Novel

Waiting: A Novel

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In Waiting, award-winning author Ha Jin brings to life a haunting story set in Northeastern China between 1963 and 1985.

Army doctor Lin Kong is caught between his dutiful wife Shuyu, whom he never truly loved, and his desire to divorce her so he can marry Manna Wu, a nurse he genuinely cares for. Year after year he “waits” — for a divorce, for love, for freedom — while the world around him changes under the weight of social upheaval and political transformation.

Remarkably, the novel won the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Ideal for readers who are drawn to literary fiction, stories of displacement, the individual vs. state, and the quieter tragedies of human longing, Waiting is both beautiful and devastating.

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