A Free Life

Name: A Free Life
Author: Ha Jin

by Ha Jin

Chinese immigrant pursues the American Dream through musical passion

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About the author

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.

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