The Crazed

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A luminous new novel from Ha Jin, author of the National Book Award-winning, bestselling Waiting
When Jian Wan's literature professor and future father-in-law suffers a stroke, Jian dutifully agrees to take care of him. But when Professor Yang begins pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family and colleagues, and railing against China's treatment of its scholars, Jian takes the dangerous step of delving into Yang's past, to determine if these ravings are part of Yang's illness or an anguished outpouring of the truth.
Political, artistic, and humanistic concerns of the heart and the mind appear as Yang's story unfolds—a story that also explores the universal and perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Nuanced, fierce, earthy, and humane, The Crazed is further proof of Ha Jin's prodigious gifts.
HA JIN is the author of three books of poetry, two previous novels, and three collections of stories.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A luminous new novel from Ha Jin, author of the National Book Award-winning, bestselling Waiting
When Jian Wan's literature professor and future father-in-law suffers a stroke, Jian dutifully agrees to take care of him. But when Professor Yang begins pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family and colleagues, and railing against China's treatment of its scholars, Jian takes the dangerous step of delving into Yang's past, to determine if these ravings are part of Yang's illness or an anguished outpouring of the truth.
Political, artistic, and humanistic concerns of the heart and the mind appear as Yang's story unfolds—a story that also explores the universal and perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Nuanced, fierce, earthy, and humane, The Crazed is further proof of Ha Jin's prodigious gifts.
HA JIN is the author of three books of poetry, two previous novels, and three collections of stories. Waiting received the National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and has been published in twenty-five countries. A professor of English at Boston University, Ha Jin lives in the Boston area.
COMING FROM PANTHEON IN OCTOBER 2002
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