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A Free Life

A Novel

By Ha Jin

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| Hardcover | 9780375424656

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Book Description

From the award-winning author of Waiting, a new novel about a family's struggle for the American Dream.

Meet the Wu family--father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. They are arranging to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to bContinue

From the award-winning author of Waiting, a new novel about a family's struggle for the American Dream.

Meet the Wu family--father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. They are arranging 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. But after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan's 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 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.

Presented unabridged on 16 CDs.

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  • Pleased to Be Here

    Run down to the bar and rouse the culture editor: the impossible has happened. In the dispiriting age of Bush and Britney, with our military still bogged down in Baghdad and our media still bewitched by Beverly Hills, an accomplished, respected Ameri ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

  • A Free Life By Ha Jin

    In conversation, Ha Jin displays a remarkably playful sense of humor about the smallish absurdities of life. " It's crazy!" he exclaims, laughing, after describing how novelist Allegra Goodman, Nobel prize-winning poet Derek Walcott and he all share ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  • Simple breathtaking. As an Asian person who has lived abroad most of his life this book resonated with me. Great read.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 672 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0375424652
  • ISBN-13: 9780375424656
  • Publisher: Pantheon
  • Pub date: Oct 30, 2007
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