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Ha Jin

China (b.1956)

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.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical

Novels

   In the Pond (1998)
   Waiting (1999)
   The Crazed (2002)
   War Trash (2004)
   A Free Life (2007)
   Nanjing Requiem (2011)
   A Map of Betrayal (2014)
   The Boat Rocker (2016)
   A Song Everlasting (2021)
   The Woman Back from Moscow (2023)

Collections

   Between Silences (poems) (1990)
   Ocean of Words (1996)
   Facing Shadows (poems) (1996)
   Under the Red Flag (1997)
   The Bridegroom (2000)
   Wreckage (poems) (2001)
   A Good Fall (2009)
   A Distant Center (poems) (2018)

Novellas and Short Stories

Alive (2014)

Non fiction show

Ha Jin recommends

Habitations (2024)
Sheila Sundar
"Habitations is a delightful novel, written with immediacy, warmth, and wry humor. Covering dramas both personal and universal, Sundar offers insightful reflections on the desire for arrival and the longing for return. This is a significant addition to migrant fiction."

The Dredge (2024)
Brendan Flaherty
"The Dredge probes the conventional American myth: the past can be reformed and even suppressed so that one can turn a new page in the American Eden and become a new Adam or Eve. The intense story dramatizes how the past always shapes and determines the main characters' quotidian existence and mental activities. An ambitious, splendid debut."

House of Caravans (2023)
Shilpi Suneja
"Tolstoyan in its scope, House of Caravans is a marvel of a novel. It copes with some major issues of our time, such as the mingling of races, colonization, rebellion, historical violence, migrations, and also love and remembrance. Shilpi Suneja writes with patience, subtlety, and intelligence. She is a genuine artist."

Hospital (2023)
(Hospital , book 1)
Han Song
"Han Song stands out among Chinese science fiction writers. His exuberant imagination engages history in total earnest, speaking to the darkness and perversity of the human condition. Hospital is his masterpiece and should be a landmark in the terrain of contemporary science fiction."

Camp Zero (2023)
Michelle Min Sterling
"Camp Zero is a sui generis novel, boldly imagined, intricately designed, and convincingly detailed. Though set in the near future, it resonates with a palpable sense of reality and with the deep insights into some dimensions of the human condition, such as migrations, the burden of the past, environmental destruction, gender inequality, self-recreation. Page by page, the prose shines with subtle verbal artistry. This is groundbreaking literary work."

Skull Water (2023)
Heinz Insu Fenkl
"A magnificent novel with a grand vision and assured execution."

The Piano Tuner (2023)
Chiang-Sheng Kuo
"An elegant novel, told with restraint and acute perceptions. A delightful read."

The Lunar Housewife (2022)
Caroline Woods
"The Lunar Housewife is written with tremendous skill and an ingenious form. Caroline Woods is an imaginative artist, and this is serious fiction that resonates with a keen intelligence."

The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land (2022)
Omer Friedlander
"Rarely do we encounter a writer so young but also this wise. Innovative in conception, classical in spirit: a splendid literary debut."

Thank You, Mr. Nixon (2022)
Gish Jen
"It is hard to do justice to this wonderful collection of intricately linked stories. The human drama is at once personal and historical, and Gish Jen's unique style - its keen intelligence blended with sly humor - makes this book a marvelous read."

Joan is Okay (2022)
Weike Wang
"Unflinchingly, Joan Is Okay challenges some of our fundamental views on home, belonging, family. A smart, quietly engaging novel that is also warm and moving."

Jesus Is Sending You This Message (2008)
Jim Grimsley
"Jim is one of the very best southern novelists of his generation. His books achieve an elegance and intensity of language that is very different from most prose writers."

In Open Spaces (2002)
(Arbuckle Trilogy, book 1)
Russell Rowland
"Charged with dramatic tension, a joy to read."

Lucky Us (2001)
Joan Silber
"A love story of our time."

The Lost Daughter of Happiness (2001)
Geling Yan
"Geling Yan stands as an eminent writer from the Chinese diaspora. . . an ambitious, eloquent, and unique book."

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Anthologies containing stories by Ha Jin

It Occurs to Me That I Am America (2018)
edited by
Jonathan Santlofer

Hint Fiction (2010)
An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
edited by
Robert Swartwood

The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and Barbara Kingsolver

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Awards

	National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (1999) : Waiting
	PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book winner (2000) : Waiting
	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2000) : Waiting
	PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book winner (2005) : War Trash
	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2005) : War Trash

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