Waiting

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Praise for Waîtillg
"Compassionate, earthy, robust, and wise, Waiting blends provocative allegory with all-too-human comedy. The resuit touches and reveals, bringing to life a singular world in its spectacular intricacy" —-G i s h Jen, author of Who's Irish?
"A remarkable love story. Ha Jin's under standing of the human heart and the human condition transcends borders and time. Waiting is an outstanding literary achievement."
Ifef-^LiSA See , author of On Gold Mountain
"A deceptively simple taie, .written with extraordinary précision and grâce. Ha Jin hâs established himself as one of the great sturdy realists still writing in a postmodern âge."
I .1 MmBPI: -r—Kirkus Reviews
In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author Ha Jin draws on his intímate knowl-edge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Praise for Waîtillg
"Compassionate, earthy, robust, and wise, Waiting blends provocative allegory with all-too-human comedy. The resuit touches and reveals, bringing to life a singular world in its spectacular intricacy" —-G i s h Jen, author of Who's Irish?
"A remarkable love story. Ha Jin's under standing of the human heart and the human condition transcends borders and time. Waiting is an outstanding literary achievement."
Ifef-^LiSA See , author of On Gold Mountain
"A deceptively simple taie, .written with extraordinary précision and grâce. Ha Jin hâs established himself as one of the great sturdy realists still writing in a postmodern âge."
I .1 MmBPI: -r—Kirkus Reviews
In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author Ha Jin draws on his intímate knowl-edge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regúlate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart.
For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young—a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compilant wife agréés to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different.
Tracing these lives through their summer of décision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom. Waiting charms and startles us with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves us with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love. Vissza