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Friday, November 16th or
Saturday, November 17th
HA JIN signs
A Free Life
(Pantheon, $26.00)
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In a starred review, Kirkus said: "A poet as well as a fiction writer, Ha Jin writes of sacrifice, isolation, and valor with uncommon perception. In his earlier novels, including Waiting (1999), winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award ... he looks back to China, his homeland. In his seventh work of fiction, Ha Jin anatomizes the immigrant experience. Nan Wu, a Chinese graduate student in Boston, drops out after the Tiananmen Square massacre. He would like to abandon his marriage, too, but his sense of duty toward Pingping and their young son is stronger than his desire for passion and the freedom to write poetry. So Nan laboriously progresses from busboy to chef, then purchases a small Chinese restaurant outside Atlanta, Georgia. While Pingping evinces great strength of character, Nan remains deeply conflicted over his longing for art and his commitment to pragmatism... Capacious, pointillistic, empathic, and tender, Ha Jin's tale of one immigrant family's odyssey in America affirms humankind's essential mission, to honor life." | |
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