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A Free Life

A Novel

By Ha Jin

By Ha Jin

By Ha Jin

By Ha Jin

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction

Paperback $17.95

Jan 27, 2009 | ISBN 9780307278609

Ebook $11.99

Oct 30, 2007 | ISBN 9780375425264

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    About A Free Life

    A New York Times Notable Book

    One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate

     In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes on a number of menial jobs, eventually operating a restaurant with Pingping, he struggles to adapt to the American way of life and to hold his family together, even as he pines for a woman he loved and lost in his youth. Ha Jin’s prodigious talents are in full force as he brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes of the contemporary immigrant experience.

    About A Free Life

    A New York Times Notable Book

    One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate

     In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes on a number of menial jobs, eventually operating a restaurant with Pingping, he struggles to adapt to the American way of life and to hold his family together, even as he pines for a woman he loved and lost in his youth. Ha Jin’s prodigious talents are in full force as he brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes of the contemporary immigrant experience.

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    The Banished Immortal
    The Boat Rocker
    A Map of Betrayal
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    About Ha Jin

    HA JIN left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of eight nov­els, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a biography of Li Bai, and a book of essays. He has received the… More about Ha Jin

    About Ha Jin

    HA JIN left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of eight nov­els, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a biography of Li Bai, and a book of essays. He has received the… More about Ha Jin

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $17.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 27, 2009 | 672 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307278609

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 30, 2007 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9780375425264

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    Praise

    “Exquisite and resonant…Jin has fashioned a ruminative, capacious, covertly ironic and quietly revealing tale of one family’s pursuit of the American Dream.”

    —Los Angeles Times

     

    “Striking. . . . Jin’s language has ripened into something extraordinary.”

    —The Washington Post Book World

     

    “[A Free Life] transforms the genre…. The narrative unfolds on such an intimate, domestic scale…that it takes a while to realize that this is also an epic.”

    —Robert Pinsky, Slate

     

    “A leisurely, generous tale….As vast and unbounded as the brave and overwhelming new world it describes.”

    —Boston Globe

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