Nanjing Requiem, Ha Jin
Nanjing Requiem, Ha Jin
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Nanjing Requiem

Author: Ha Jin

Narrator: Angela Lin

Unabridged: 11 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/18/2011


Synopsis

Author Ha Jin's celebrated works have claimed several top literary awards, including three Pushcart Prizes. In Nanjing Requiem, the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. The dean of Jinling Women's College, Minnie Vautrin mistakenly believes her American citizenship will protect the school. But Vautrin's life becomes a daily struggle as the school becomes a refugee camp-and the slaughter of refugees begins. "Jin paints a convincing, harrowing portrait of heroism in the face of brutality."-Publishers Weekly

About Ha Jin

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shomeret on April 25, 2012

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

Goodreads review by Lewis on April 28, 2021

unrelenting details of a horrible experience ... reveals Japanese brutality toward China in 1937......more

Goodreads review by Tara on October 12, 2011

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

Goodreads review by NyiNya on August 27, 2012

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

Goodreads review by Samuel on March 11, 2019

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