The Boat Rocker
  • Published: 30 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780804170376
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $35.00

The Boat Rocker

A Novel

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From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.

New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency whose website is read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin’s explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers—and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize her dreams of literary stardom.
 
Haili’s scheme infuriates Danlin both morally and personally—he will do whatever it takes to expose her as a fraud. But in outing Haili, he is also provoking her powerful political allies, and he will need to draw on all of his journalistic cunning to come out of this investigation with his career—and his life—unscathed. A brilliant, darkly funny story of corruption, integrity, and the power of the pen, The Boat Rocker is a tour de force.
  • Published: 30 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780804170376
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $35.00
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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
A Map of Betrayal
Nanjing Requiem
A Good Fall
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Praise for The Boat Rocker

  • "A delicious satire.... One of the most unsettling books about the moral dimensions of modern journalism.... Rocking the boat is not just a right; it's a sacred duty--no matter where it leads." --The Washington Post
  • "Savage satire.... [Ha Jin is] a writer of simple yet powerful gifts." --The New York Times Book Review
  • "Convincing as well as timely. . . . [Has] a powerful moral core." --The Christian Science Monitor
  • "In crafting a memorable hero and a narrative that is both entertaining and thought-provoking, [Jin] affirms the value of fiction itself as...a powerful vehicle for the truths of our times." --The Boston Globe
  • "The narrative framework is fertile ground for Jin's brilliant and nuanced political and social observations.... It feels like a miracle--and a splendid irony--that an immigrant writer can fashion a novel with such quintessentially American themes from the front lines of the Chinese diaspora." --The Seattle Times

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