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author spotlight
HA JIN's previous books include the internationally best-sellingWaiting, which won the National Book Award; War Trash, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award; the story collections Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; and three books of poetry.
Ha Jin is represented by Random House Speakers Bureau (www.rhspeakers.com).
author bookshelf
The Bridegroom
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $14.95
From the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, a collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful.
In the title story, the head of security at a factory is... Read more >
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $14.95
From the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, a collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful.
In the title story, the head of security at a factory is... Read more >
The Bridegroom
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $11.99
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Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $11.99
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The Crazed
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $13.95
Since the appearance of his first book of stories in English, Ha Jin has won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and garnered comparisons to Dickens, Balzac, and Isaac Babel. “Like Babel,” wrote Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review, “Ha Jin observes everything . . ... Read more >
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $13.95
Since the appearance of his first book of stories in English, Ha Jin has won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and garnered comparisons to Dickens, Balzac, and Isaac Babel. “Like Babel,” wrote Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review, “Ha Jin observes everything . . ... Read more >
The Crazed
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
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Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
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A Free Life
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $16.95
From Ha Jin, the widely-acclaimed, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash, comes a novel that takes his fiction to a new setting: 1990s America. We follow the Wu family—father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao—as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square... Read more >
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $16.95
From Ha Jin, the widely-acclaimed, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash, comes a novel that takes his fiction to a new setting: 1990s America. We follow the Wu family—father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao—as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square... Read more >
A Free Life
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $13.99
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A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $13.99
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A Good Fall
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.00
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom, National Book Award-winning author Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
A lonely composer takes comfort in the antics of his girlfriend's parakeet; young children decide to change their names so they might sound... Read more >
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.00
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom, National Book Award-winning author Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
A lonely composer takes comfort in the antics of his girlfriend's parakeet; young children decide to change their names so they might sound... Read more >
A Good Fall
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $11.99
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Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $11.99
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In the Pond
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 21, 2000
Price: $13.95
In The Pond is the first novel by National Book Award Winning author Ha Jin. This is the darkly funny portrait of an amateur calligrapher who wields his delicate artist's brush as a weapon against the powerful party bureaucrats who rule his provincial Chinese town.
Shao Bin is a downtrodden worker at the... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 21, 2000
Price: $13.95
In The Pond is the first novel by National Book Award Winning author Ha Jin. This is the darkly funny portrait of an amateur calligrapher who wields his delicate artist's brush as a weapon against the powerful party bureaucrats who rule his provincial Chinese town.
Shao Bin is a downtrodden worker at the... Read more >
Nanjing Requiem
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.95
It’s 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College, decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.95
It’s 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College, decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully... Read more >
Nanjing Requiem
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $26.95
The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing.
In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin—an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $26.95
The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing.
In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin—an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s... Read more >
Nanjing Requiem
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99
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A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $11.99
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Ocean of Words
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 28, 1998
Price: $15.00
Winner of the PENHemingway Award
The place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. The characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers who must constantly scrutinize the enemy even as they... Read more >
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 28, 1998
Price: $15.00
Winner of the PENHemingway Award
The place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. The characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers who must constantly scrutinize the enemy even as they... Read more >
Waiting
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $16.00
In Waiting, PENHemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge 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... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $16.00
In Waiting, PENHemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge 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... Read more >
Waiting
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $11.99
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Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 20, 2001
Price: $11.99
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War Trash
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.95
****WINNER OF THE 2005 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION****
War Trash, the extraordinary new novel by the National Book Award–winning author of Waiting, is Ha Jin’s most ambitious work to date: a powerful, unflinching story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known war—the experiences of Chinese POWs held by... Read more >
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.95
****WINNER OF THE 2005 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION****
War Trash, the extraordinary new novel by the National Book Award–winning author of Waiting, is Ha Jin’s most ambitious work to date: a powerful, unflinching story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known war—the experiences of Chinese POWs held by... Read more >
War Trash
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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