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Nan, American Man.(Book review)
A critic cannot but be impressed by the courage and intellect of the Chinese-American writer Ha Jin. Born in 1956 of parents who were both military doctors, he volunteered for the People's Liberation Army at the age of fourteen and served five and a half years, near the northeast border with Russia. He began to take a keen interest in reading in his late teens, by which time the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) had closed down China's educational institutions and made any books but Mao's "little red book" suspect. In 1977, Heilongjiang University, in Harbin, admitted Ha Jin but assigned him to study English, even though it was his last choice on a list of preferences. After ...
- Ha Jin. A Free Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Garrett, Daniel March 22, 2008 700+ words
HA JIN. A FREE LIFE. PANTHEON BOOKS, 2007. 660 PP. CLOTH: $26.00. A Free Life by Ha Jin, the author of Waiting and War Trash and the winner of National Book...
- Wrestling with freedom: Ha Jin's simple, beautiful new novel chronicles the...
- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine Passaro, Vince November 1, 2007 700+ words
...the main character in Ha Jin's novel A Free Life (Pantheon), is a...resident strangers. Ha Jin, too, has written...novels in English. A Free Life is the first set predominantly...United States rather than Ha Jin's native China, and...
- A Life in Books: Ha Jin.(Periscope)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek February 4, 2008 700+ words
...finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Jin is known for spare and elegant stories about Chinese culture. His latest novel, "A Free Life," is an epic tale of immigrants in America. His picks: My Five Most Important Books 1. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy...
- HA JIN MASTERS THE MICROCOSM.(EDITORIAL)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) January 3, 2003 700+ words
...taking shape. Chinese emigre novelist Ha Jin -- who writes in English, teaches at...Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov. Whether Ha Jin will one day join such august company remains...state -- a retrograde species." That Ha Jin can make this kind of conversation engaging...
- HA JIN'S SHORT STORIES SPEAK FROM THE SOUL.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot January 14, 2001 700+ words
...Byline: LUISA A. IGLORIA THE BRIDEGROOM HA JIN Pantheon Books. 227 pp. $22. A PICTURE of two birds in a cage graces the cover of Ha Jin's new collection of short fiction. The...Award and PEN/ Faulkner Award-winner Ha Jin, we have 12 stories written in his signature...
- Ha Jin: Wreckage.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Twitchell-Waas, Jeffrey January 1, 2002 700+ words
...GIVEN THE REMARKABLE popular success Ha Jin's prolific fiction has gained in the...reading. The poems are highly readable, and Ha Jin has an eye for effective detail, although...possible ways out. The suffering voices Ha Jin conjures up from the past are often moving...
- Ha Jin. In the Pond. Cambridge, Ma. Zoland. 1998. 178 pages. $20. ISBN...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Kinkley, Jeffrey C. March 22, 1999 700+ words
Ha Jin is a Chinese American literary phenomenon...and values that was about to vanish just as Ha Jin left China. He seems to have re-created...about (see e.g. WLT 66:2, p. 402); Ha Jin, however, describes it with the fabular...
- FICTION; A student learns brutal lessons; Ha Jin evokes building tensions that...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Freeman, John November 10, 2002 700+ words
...reason, then, it's rather clever of Ha Jin to keep the events of that day in June...deceptive simplicity - qualities it shares with Ha Jin's mournful 1997 novel "Waiting," a...New York City. FICTION The Crazed By: Ha Jin. Publisher: Pantheon, 323 pages...
