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A Free Life - Paperback

by Ha Jin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ha JinSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2009-01-27Pages:672
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307278609ISBN-10:307278603UPC:9780307278609Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, Cultural HeritageSize:7.96 x 5.32 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.02Product ID:SCSVTWHSNE

A New York Times Notable Book

One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate

In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family -- father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao -- as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes on a number of menial jobs, eventually operating a restaurant with Pingping, he struggles to adapt to the American way of life and to hold his family together, even as he pines for a woman he loved and lost in his youth. Ha Jin's prodigious talents are in full force as he brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes of the contemporary immigrant experience.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307278609ISBN-10:307278603UPC:9780307278609Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, Cultural HeritageSize:7.96 x 5.32 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.02Product ID:SCSVTWHSNE
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award, and War Trash, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; the story collections The Bridegroom, which won the Asian American Literary Award, Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the novels The Crazed and In the Pond; and three books of poetry. His latest novel, A Free Life is his first novel set in the United States. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.War Trash, The Crazed, The Bridegroom, Waiting, In the Pond, and Ocean of Words are available in paperback from Vintage Books.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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