Waiting

Name: Waiting
Author: Ha Jin

by Ha Jin

Chinese officer endures three decades waiting for a promotion

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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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