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A Free Life

A Novel

By Ha Jin

Hardcover | 9780375424656

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.

Book Details

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