A Free Life, Ha Jin
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A Free Life

Author: Ha Jin

Narrator: Jaeson Ma

Unabridged: 21 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: AudioGO

Published: 10/30/2007


Synopsis

Meet the Wu family-father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. They are arranging to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to begin a new, free life in the United States. At first, their future seems well-assured. But after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan's disillusionment turns him toward his first love, poetry. Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs as Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper. As Pingping and Taotao slowly adjust to American life, Nan still feels a strange attachment to his homeland, though he violently disagrees with Communist policy. But severing all ties-including his love for a woman who rejected him in his youth-proves to be more difficult than he could have ever imagined. One of the 2007 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction.

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