The Crazed - Brossura

Jin, Ha

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ISBN 10: 0375714111 ISBN 13: 9780375714115

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2004

Riassunto

Assigned to care for his fiancée's father, Professor Yang, a respected literature teacher, after he suffers a stroke, Jian Wan is disturbed when the professor begins to rave against his family, colleagues, and the system, and risks everything in a China in the midst of the violent aftermath of Tiananmen to delve into the professor's past to uncover the truth. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Ha Jin takes the lead of ordinary life and turns it into gold. . . . Haunting . . . wrenching. . . . A work that deserves to be immortal.” —The Washington Post

“Ha Jin’s empathy for his characters is matched by his unwillingness to give them a break. Reading him is almost like falling in love: you experience anxiety, profound self-consciousness, and an uncomfortable sensitivity to the world—and somehow it’s a pleasure. . . . Like the best realist writers, Ha Jin sneaks emotional power into the plainest declarative sentences.” —The New Yorker

“A work of enormous intelligence. Piercing, critical, but leavened by Jin’s understated prose, The Crazed is a substantial addition to the corpus of a great author.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“A work of literature, in the highest tradition of Anton Chekhov or Yasunari Kawabata, suffused with an aching purity.” —Houston Chronicle

L'autore:

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award, and War Trash, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; 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; the novels The Crazed and In the Pond; and three books of poetry. His latest novel, A Free Life is his first novel set in the United States. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.

War Trash, The Crazed, The Bridegroom, Waiting, In the Pond, and Ocean of Words are available in paperback from Vintage Books.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0375714111
• ISBN 13: 9780375714115
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336