

Waiting
Author: Ha Jin
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
Categories: Fiction
Author: Ha Jin
Narrator: Dick Hill
Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
Categories: Fiction
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.
As someone who grew up in China, I found the characters very real. I read many reviews about this book talking about how none of characters are likable, except for the simple peasant ex-wife of Lin's. But I think that is what the author was trying to tell us-that the system reduced every individual'......more
Devastating & beautiful, the story is nothing if not universal. The Chinese Cultural Revolution is the backdrop & when it surrounds the characters, showing off the beauty & ugliness that is that double-edged sword, it traps them in situations which have seemingly no escape. There is here the spirit......more
From the start I could not put this book down. The story intrigued me and I wanted to know the story behind it all. I can not understand that the rating of this book is low. The story is entertaining and reads fast. It also shows a lot of Chinese culture and how people deal with that. The life choic......more