Ha Jin
Chinese-American novelist and poet who writes in English, his second language, with remarkable precision. Waiting won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His fiction bears quiet witness to life under Chinese communist rule and in the immigrant diaspora.
Works
- WaitingChinese officer endures three decades waiting for a promotion
- War TrashPrisoners of war navigate American camps during Korean War
- A Free LifeChinese immigrant pursues the American Dream through musical passion
- The CrazedLiterature professor spirals into madness amid Cultural Revolution
- A Map of BetrayalWoman uncovers secrets through espionage maps spanning half-century
- The Boat RockerAirplane engineer becomes a whistleblower against corporate corruption