The Bridegroom: Stories
by Ha Jin
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- About Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375724931
- ISBN 13
- 9780375724930
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About This Item
HA JIN: The Bridegroom: Stories. New York, Vintage International, 2001. Paperback, 225 pp. Subject: Fiction / Short Story Collections / China – Social Life & Customs. Condition: About Fine. Tiny edgewear to the foot of the book-spine. Pages bright, clean and unmarked – a book in excellent condition. "By turns comical and deeply moving, the stories in The Bridegroom – by the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his celebrated novel Waiting – present a portrait of contemporary China spiked with elements that surprise, disturb, and delight." ISBN: 9780375724930
Synopsis
A collection of short stories, brilliantly exploring the lives of ordinary Chinese, as their constricted society begins to open up to the West, from the author of Waiting, confirming Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller.This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature.In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from Maoism towards a more open society. For these men and women, starting to feel the influence of the West, the daily dramas of a system that still struggles to control their every move and thought are made all the more painful by this. As his characters, from an entrepreneur, transformed from black-market criminal to free market hero, to the workers at Cowboy Chicken, to the professor mistaken by the police for a saboteur, continue to struggle against petty injustices and heartbreaks, Ha Jin celebrates their lives and humanity with the understated humour and simplicity that has won him widespread acclaim.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 671779738
- Title
- The Bridegroom
- Author
- Ha Jin
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - About Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375724931
- ISBN 13
- 9780375724930
- Publisher
- Vintage International
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Fiction / Short Story Collections / China – Social Life & Customs
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- THE BROOKLYN BOOKMAN – USED, OUT OF PRINT, RARE & COLLECTIBLE BOOKS CATALOG; Modern World Literature;
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