New York: Pantheon Books. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 0307379760 . Stated first edition, in a first printing with full number line on copyright page. The author's novel is set in Nanjing during the horrific occupation by the Japanese in 1937, and is centered around an American educator whose college is transformed into a refugee camp. With a sketch map of the college grounds at endpapers. --- In beige paper-covered boards with spine titling in red. Dust jacket features Jerry Bauer photographic portrait of the author to rear flap. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy but with a sloppily-applied red remainder mark to textblock lower edge and to edge of front cover. Unclipped, bright jacket with a little creasing to spine ends, else undamaged.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall ; (10), 303 pages .

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HA JIN 's previous books include the internationally best-selling Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and 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.

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 83305
Title: Nanjing Requiem: A Novel
Author: Ha Jin
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0307379760
ISBN 13: 9780307379764
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2011
Keywords: 0307379760

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