Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University.
He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel
Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National
Book Award, and War Trash, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award
for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the
Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; the story collections The
Bridegroom, which won the Asian American Literary Award,
Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award
for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words, which won the
PEN/Hemingway Award; the novels The Crazed and In the
Pond; and three books of poetry. His latest novel, A Free
Life is his first novel set in the United States. He lives in
the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston
University.
War Trash, The Crazed, The Bridegroom,
Waiting, In the Pond, and Ocean of Words are
available in paperback from Vintage Books.
“Powerfully moving. . . . Brilliant and original. . . . Timeless and universal. . . . Nearly perfect.” —Russell Banks, The New York Times Book Review “A powerful work of the imagination.” —The Washington Post “Startingly seductive.... A work of profound humanism.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Haunting. . . . Deeply moving. . . . [Ha Jin] holds our attention like a whisper.” —The Christian Science Monitor
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