HA JIN Waiting

The demands of human longing contend with the weight of centuries of custom in acclaimed author Ha Jin's Waiting,a novel of unexpected richness and universal resonance.Every summer Lin Kong,a doctor in the Chinese Army,returns to his village to end his loveless arranged marriage with the humble and touchingly loyal Shuyu.But eacfh time Lin must terurn to the city to tell Manna Wu,the educated,modern nurse he loves,that they have to postpone their engagement once again.Caught between the conflicting claims of these two utterly different women and trapped by a culture in which adultery can lives and careers,Lin has been waiting for eighteen years,This year,he promises,will be different.作者简介: Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University.He is the author of the novels The Crazed and In the Pond;the story collections The Bridegroom,which won the Asian American Literary Award,Under the Red Flag,which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction,and Ocean of Words,which won the PEN/Hemingway Award;and three books of poetry.Waitin,his second novel,won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulknet Award.He Lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.