Waiting - Jin, Ha
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A poignant story of arranged marriage and forbidden love, set in rural China, which paints a vivid picture of a China which remains hidden to western eyes.
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. Every summer, he returns to ask her for a divorce and every summer his compliant wife agrees but then backs out.

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Produktbeschreibung
A poignant story of arranged marriage and forbidden love, set in rural China, which paints a vivid picture of a China which remains hidden to western eyes.
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. Every summer, he returns to ask her for a divorce and every summer his compliant wife agrees but then backs out.
Autorenporträt
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 for the USA. He is the author of three novels, Waiting - winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2000 PEN/ Faulkner Award - In the Pond, The Crazed, three collections of stories and three volumes of poetry. He lives near Boston and teaches at Boston University.