

Nanjing Requiem
Author: Ha Jin
Narrator: Angela Lin
Unabridged: 11 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/18/2011
Author: Ha Jin
Narrator: Angela Lin
Unabridged: 11 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/18/2011
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of two books of poetry; two collections of stories, Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1997, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1996; and In the Pond, a novel. He lives near Atlanta, where he is a professor at Emory University.
I read this book because I thought a novel would be a better way for me to read about the Japanese occupation of Nanjing. Reportage of atrocities can de-sensitize us so that they have less impact and you care less about the victims. Fiction with characterization where you see into the minds and hear......more
unrelenting details of a horrible experience ... reveals Japanese brutality toward China in 1937......more
I appreciate what the author has done here: educated us about the rape Nanjing. I didn't know a thing about it till I picked up this book. But where I was expecting a historical novel about a strong missionary woman named Minnie, I got just what I said above, the rape of Nanjing. The first part of t......more
Ha Jin never goes for the jugular. His cool, reserved style works to his advantage in "Nanjing Requiem. The facts are so horrific, that letting too much emotion creep into the narrative could take it over the edge into Grand Guignol. The focus of Nanjing Requiem is Jinling Women's College. Ha Jin sea......more
Ha Jin provides an empathetic history in his telling of this event that is frequently overlooked in our tellings of the history of the mid-20th century. The first half of the novel deals with themes of heroism and justice as the protagonists try to protect thousands of women and children from the in......more