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  • Looking for Tank Man

    A Novel

    by Ha Jin ...
    **One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the YearA Harvard student from China discovers the fraught, hidden history of the Tiananmen Square massacre in this powerful novel of protest and suppression from the National Book Award–winning author.**When the Chinese premier visits Harvard, international student Pei Lulu encounters a lone protester, who will drastically change her understanding of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Waiting

    A Novel (Winner of the National Book Award)

    by Ha Jin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • National Book Award Winner • Pulitzer Prize Finalist • A New York Times Notable BookFrom the widely acclaimed author—a rich and atmospheric novel about a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women.The demands of human longing contend with the weight of centuries of custom in acclaimed author Ha Jin’s Waiting, a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • War Trash

    by Ha Jin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Ha Jin’s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Mao’s “volunteer” army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Parallel. Because he speaks English, he soon becomes an intermediary between his compatriots and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Distant Center

    by Ha Jin ...
    In the bold tradition of the “Misty Poets,” Ha Jin confronts China’s fraught political history while paying tribute to its rich culture and landscape. The poems of A Distant Center speak in a voice that is steady and direct, balancing contemplative longing with sober warnings from a writer who has confronted the traumas of censorship and state violence. With unadorned language and epigrammatic wit ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Crazed

    by Ha Jin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post, Los Angeles times, and San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the YearHa Jin’s seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state. When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Writer as Migrant

    by Ha Jin ...
    Series series The Rice University Campbell Lectures
    National Book Award winner Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world.Consisting of three interconnected essays, The Writer as Migrant sets Ha Jin’s own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across cultures and between eras. He employs the cases of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Chinese ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Diss Love Vol.3

    by Ha Tae Jin ...
    Series Book 3 - Diss Love
    Cha Hyunho's diss track targeting Eyan stirred up public buzz.But the tension between them hasn't faded—it carries over into both their reality show appearances and private interactions.Eyan tries to keep Hyunho at a distance, but Hyunho presses on, eager to prove he's a business partner worth taking seriously.And as Hyunho begins to capture Eyan's attention in ways that go beyond business, Eyan ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Nanjing Requiem

    A Novel

    by Ha Jin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing.In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin—an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College—decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Under the Red Flag

    Stories

    by Ha Jin ...
    Series series Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series
    "The spirit of a rural town during China's Cultural Revolution is captured" in this Flannery O'Connor Award-winning short story collection ( Publishers Weekly).The acclaimed poet Ha Jin was raised in China and emigrated to the United States after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. In Under the Red Flag, he writes about loss and moral deterioration with the keen sense of a survivor. His stories ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bridegroom

    Stories

    by Ha Jin ...
    From the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, a collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful.In the title story, the head of security at a factory is shocked, first when the hansomest worker on the floor proposes marriage to his homely adopted ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ocean of Words

    Stories

    by Ha Jin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Winner of the PEN/Hemingway AwardThe place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers who must constantly scrutinize the enemy even as they themselves are watched for signs of the fatal disease of bourgeois liberalism.In Ocean of Words ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In the Pond

    by Ha Jin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    National Book Award-winner Ha Jin's arresting debut novel , In the Pond, is a darkly funny portrait of an amateur calligrapher who wields his delicate artist's brush as a weapon against the powerful party bureaucrats who rule his provincial Chinese town.Shao Bin is a downtrodden worker at the Harvest Fertilizer Plant by day and an aspiring artist by night. Passed over on the list to receive a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD