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Crazed by Ha Jin
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
In his powerful new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a s ...Show more
In the Pond by Ha Jin
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Ha Jin has been compared to the late Issac Babel for his spare evocation of ordinary lives caught up in the flux of vast social movements. Winner of the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction for his story collection Under the Red Flag, Ha Jin is a writer of stark power, simple beauty and poignant irony. ...Show more
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash- an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea,and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news age ...Show more
The Bridegroom by Ha Jin
26.95 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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The Crazed by Ha Jin
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
In 'The Crazed', Ha Jin deepens his portrait of Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Ji ...Show more
Waiting by Ha Jin
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, is in love with an educated, modern woman, Mannu Wu. But, his family chose a wife for him when he was young. Tracing these lives through their summer of decision, this work conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must con ...Show more
Waiting by Ha Jin
16.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 ...Show more
War Trash by Ha Jin
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Ha Jin's masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao's "volunteer" army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Para ...Show more
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