Waiting
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2006
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-949272-6 (ISBN)
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-949272-6 (ISBN)
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Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different.
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every year he visits her in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different. "Waiting" charms and startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every year he visits her in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different. "Waiting" charms and startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 for the USA. He is the author of three books of poetry; three collections of stories, The Bridegroom, Under the Red Flag and Ocean of Words, a novella, In the Pond; and the international bestseller Waiting, winner of the US National Book Award. He lives in Boston.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.8.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 113 x 176 mm |
| Gewicht | 168 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-09-949272-5 / 0099492725 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-09-949272-6 / 9780099492726 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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