A Free Life
Jin, Ha
ISBN 10: 1605145750 ISBN 13: 9781605145754
Verlag: PLAYAWAY, UNITED STATES, 2008
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Introducing the Wu family father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. We meet them as they arrange to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to begin a new, free life in the United States. At first, their future seems well assured. Nan s graduate work in political science at Brandeis University ensures him a teaching position. But after the fallout from Tiananmen, his disillusionment turns him toward his first love, poetry. Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs as Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper. As Nan struggles to adapt to a new language and culture, his love of poetry and literature sustains him through difficult, lean years. As Pingping and Taotao slowly adjust to American life, Nan still feels a strange attachment to his homeland, though he violently disagrees with Communist policy. But severing all ties including his love for a woman who rejected him in his youth proves to be more difficult than he could have ever imagined.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: HA JIN was born in China in 1956. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for fiction as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. In 2004, he published War Trash, which also won the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has published two collections of poetry, and two collections of short fiction, Ocean of Words, which received the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O Connor Award. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.
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Titel: A Free Life
Verlag: PLAYAWAY, UNITED STATES
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
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