Waiting by Ha Jin
Hardcover, USA | 1st Edition | 1st Printing | 1999 | Publisher: Pantheon Books
A distinguished first edition from Ha Jin — the Chinese-American novelist and poet, winner of the National Book Award 1999 and the PEN/Faulkner Award 2000 for this very novel, Waiting. Ha Jin writes in English about Chinese life and history with extraordinary precision, restraint, and moral complexity. Waiting is the story of an army doctor who spends eighteen years waiting for the required divorce so he can marry the woman he loves, while his unwanted wife stoically accepts the situation — a piercing portrait of honour, obligation, desire, and the weight of a society that subordinates individual lives to collective rules. Published by Pantheon Books. Ha Jin has also been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and is a Distinguished Professor at Boston University.
Condition: Good, but will show signs of previous ownership. Some wear damage from reading visible on the spine and dust cover.
A first edition of the National Book Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award winner — one of the great American literary novels of the 1990s.