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Waiting

by Ha Jin · 1999

Literary Fiction · ranked #180 in category

Lin Kong, an army doctor in rural China, waits eighteen years for the bureaucratic permission to divorce his village wife Shuyu and marry his beloved Manna Wu — trapped between two women, two worlds and a system that controls every dimension of private life. Ha Jin's National Book Award-winning novel is a study in patience, repression and the cost of choices deferred across decades.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1999 · 1990s
Author
Ha Jin
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