the crazed HA JIN

作者：  Ha Jin 著

出版社：江西人民出版社 2004年01月

简介：Set during the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989, The Crazed, a novel from Ha Jin, the award-winning author of the bestseller Waiting, unites a prominent Chinese university professor who suffers a brain injury and Jien Wen, a favorite student and future son-in-law who becomes his caretaker. As Professor Yang rants about his earlier life, his bizarre outbursts begin to strike Jien as containing some truth and, considering the uncertain times, he puzzles over their meaning. When Jien realizes that his additional responsibilities make sitting for his Ph.D. exams impossible, Meimei, his fiancée, promptly discards him, branding him as unloving, since passing the exams would have ensured they would both have attended graduate school in Beijing. Unmoored from the university, and unconnected to anything else, Jien joins the student movement and as a result becomes a police suspect. Problematic to the plot is that Meimei is hardly warm to Jien; their relationship never appears to be anything but doomed. The professor's hallucinatory diatribes comprise the bulk of the novel, and initially it seems unlikely that a story will ever evolve from these ramblings. But with Yang indisposed, minor characters from the university conspire to devise means to further their personal agendas. A mystery results, as university and literature department personnel plot to have someone other than Jien marry Meimei. Jin's prose is succinct, but the most interesting parts of Jien's life occur, unfortunately, at the end of the book, leaving readers who fell for Waiting wanting more. --Michael Ferch --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 作者简介 Ha Jin's sparse writing style, which was on wonderful display in "Waiting", is as effective as ever. His words are as clinical and precise as the hospital room in which much of the novel is set. The pace moves forward rapidly and well. Sometimes, I found that the professor's rants covered a lot of space in the text prolonging the suspense a bit too much. These sections set in the hospital with an almost unrelenting focus on the professor were a little claustrophobic.

疯狂CRAZED

作者：  Ha Jin　著

出版社：江西人民出版社 2003年12月

简介：
Since the appearance of his first book of stories in English, Ha Jin has won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and garnered comparisons to Dickens, Balzac, and Isaac Babel. “Like Babel,” wrote Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review, “Ha Jin observes everything . . . yet he tells the reader only—and precisely—as much as is needed to make his deceptively simple fiction resonate on many levels.”
　　In his luminous new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of contemporary Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal. Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial university, has had a stroke, and his student Jian Wan—who is also engaged to Yang’s daughter—has been assigned to care for him. What at first seems a simple if burdensome duty becomes treacherous when the professor begins to rave: pleading with invisible tormentors, denouncing his family, his colleagues, and a system in which a scholar is “just a piece of meat on a cutting board.”
　　Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? And can the dutiful Jian avoid being irretrievably compromised? For in a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who hear the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. At once nuanced and fierce, earthy and humane, The Crazed is further evidence of Ha Jin’s prodigious narrative gifts.

HA JIN Waiting

作者：  Ha Jin 著

出版社：江西人民出版社 2000年9月

简介：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.

Waiting

作者：  Ha Jin　著

出版社： 2006-8-1

简介：For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every year he visits her in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different.　　Waiting charms and startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.　　作者简介：　　Ha Jin was born in 1956 in Liaoning,China,and spent six years serving in the People's Liberation Army.Hhe left China in 1985 for the United States,where he earned a PhD at Brandeis University.He is the author of three volumes of peotry,three collections of stories and four novels.

Missed time

作者：  哈金(Ha Jin)著;明迪译

出版社：联经出版事业股份有限公司,2011

简介：在成為小說家之前，他其實是位詩人 在成為一位詩人前，沒有人可以說他足以駕馭文字－－ 另一個人，另一個更富有潛力的自己。 美國國家書卷獎得主哈金詩選集首度中譯 精選自《沉默之間》《面對陰影》《殘骸》三部詩集 特別收錄長篇小說《自由生活》「武男的詩」27首詩作 ■本書收錄哈金三部重量級詩作 《沉默之間》為中國弱勢群體發聲 《面對陰影》是哈金個人在美國的奮鬥經歷、對生活的感恩、對舊友的情誼，以及對童年的記憶。 《殘骸》從各種不同的個體角度看中國歷史，既有縱向的磅礴氣勢，又有橫向的細緻深刻，從大禹治水一直寫到清末中國第一批留學生出洋，以抒情筆調寫華夏歷史。 《自由生活》被美國桂冠詩人、文學評論家羅伯特?平斯基（Robert Pinsky）譽為「史詩」：「（《自由生活》）改變了文學體裁，敍述在親切的家常話基調上展開，之後才意識到這是一部史詩。」 ■哈金的誕生 1986年秋季，我的導師法蘭克?畢達教詩歌寫作，我當時是二年級文學研究生，還不允許正式修這門課，所以我就旁聽，但必須交作業。〈死兵的獨白〉是我交的第一篇作業，法蘭克很喜歡，就興沖沖地給他的朋友在電話上讀了。他那位朋友當時是《巴黎評論》的詩歌編輯，就錄用了。但那是在電話上接受的，得署上個名字，法蘭克問我要用什麼名字。我不願意讓別人知道我在寫東西，就問「哈金」怎麼樣，他說聽起來很好，很簡潔。從那時起我就開始用這個筆名。後來法蘭克和我的另一位也是詩人的導師－－艾倫?葛羅斯曼－－鼓勵我繼續寫詩。1988年夏季，我在工廠裡做看守，有時間，就寫了《沉默之間》。那年秋季，有幾家出版社拒絕了這本詩集，最後被芝加哥大學出版社接受了。詩集出版時，我並沒有很在意，覺得這只是一個「插曲」，因為我打算將來回國，用中文寫作。 ■哈金與他的詩 天安門事件後，我漸漸意識到得用英語長期寫下去，但我也覺得自己太天真，以前沒意識到代言人的角色有多麼沉重。所以第二本詩集《面對陰影》就變得比較個人化，更有抒情的強度，詩也更簡練些。第三本詩集《殘骸》，斷斷續續寫了大約三年；則像一部史詩，從各種不同的個體角度看中國的歷史。《面對陰影》裡面的詩最像我自己，跟自己個人的經歷比較密切。對詩人來說，最難的是－－怎樣找到自己獨特的音樂。你看英語中的大詩人，只要拿出一行詩，讀者一般就知道是誰的。所以不是流暢與否的問題，而是詩人怎樣獲得自己特性的問題，一個終極性的問題。我在英文詩裡其實沒走多遠，但深知這個問題。這些年來我大部分精力都用到小說上了。英語中沒有非母語的大詩人，這也是非母語作家寫作的極限，但願將來有人衝破這個極限。 卷首詩 錯過的時光 幾個月了，筆記本一直空白著， 因為你的光 從四面沐浴著我。這枝筆 已沒用了，懶散地， 了無哀傷。 再也沒有什麼比無故事的一生 更幸福的了，不需要 寫作，去追求意義－－ 我走後，讓他們去說 失去了一個快樂的人吧， 儘管誰也說不出我是怎樣快樂。 （和戴望舒）