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Cultural clash of love, tradition, and sacrifice.

This book is a must-read for those who appreciate captivating storytelling and a deep exploration of the complexities of love. "Waiting" provides a rare glimpse into the clash between tradition and modernity in China, where the protagonist's unwavering love for a woman outside of his arranged marriage is tested year after year. Ha Jin's piercing vision beautifully captures the tensions between societal expectations and personal desires, making this novel an emotional and thought-provoking journey.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2000)
  • National Book Award for Fiction (1999)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2000)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Waiting

by Ha Jin
Regular price ₱341.55 Now ₱193.05 Save 43%
Unit price
per
ISBN: 9780099285892
Authors: Ha Jin
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date of Publication: 2000-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.54
(rated by 22220 readers)

Description

For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a 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. Every year he visits her 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 compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different WAITING charms and startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.
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Cultural clash of love, tradition, and sacrifice.

This book is a must-read for those who appreciate captivating storytelling and a deep exploration of the complexities of love. "Waiting" provides a rare glimpse into the clash between tradition and modernity in China, where the protagonist's unwavering love for a woman outside of his arranged marriage is tested year after year. Ha Jin's piercing vision beautifully captures the tensions between societal expectations and personal desires, making this novel an emotional and thought-provoking journey.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2000)
  • National Book Award for Fiction (1999)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2000)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.