A Free Life
Ha Jin
  • Published: 27 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780307278609
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $49.99

A Free Life

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30 Oct 2007
Paperback
27 Jan 2009
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A New York Times Notable Book

One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate

 In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes on a number of menial jobs, eventually operating a restaurant with Pingping, he struggles to adapt to the American way of life and to hold his family together, even as he pines for a woman he loved and lost in his youth. Ha Jin's prodigious talents are in full force as he brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes of the contemporary immigrant experience.
  • Published: 27 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780307278609
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $49.99
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About the author

Ha Jin

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 for the USA. He is the author of six novels, including Waiting – winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2000 PEN/ Faulkner Award – In the Pond, The Crazed and his latest, Nanjing Requiem. He has also published four collections of stories and four volumes of poetry. He lives near Boston and teaches at Boston University

Also by Ha Jin

The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty
A Song Everlasting
The Banished Immortal
The Boat Rocker - A Novel
The Boat Rocker
A Map of Betrayal
Nanjing Requiem
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