Ha Jin

About the Author

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 and is now a professor of English at Emory University. He is author of, among other works, two short-story collections: Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. His novel show more Waiting won the National Book Award for fiction in 1999. He lives in Atlanta. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Ha Jin

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Waiting (1999) 4,109 copies, 80 reviews

War Trash (2005) 1,183 copies, 30 reviews

The Crazed (2002) 824 copies, 15 reviews

The Bridegroom: Stories (2000) 734 copies, 6 reviews

A Free Life (2007) 711 copies, 18 reviews

In the Pond (1998) 456 copies, 5 reviews

A Good Fall: Stories (2009) 343 copies, 14 reviews

Nanjing Requiem (2011) 291 copies, 11 reviews

A Map of Betrayal (2014) 254 copies, 25 reviews

Ocean of Words: Army Stories (1996) 181 copies, 4 reviews

Under the Red Flag: Stories (1997) 153 copies, 5 reviews

The Boat Rocker (2016) 133 copies, 7 reviews

The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) (2019) 114 copies, 2 reviews

The Boat Rocker (2021) 72 copies, 7 reviews

The Writer as Migrant (2008) 58 copies, 3 reviews

Between Silences (1990) 27 copies

Wreckage (2001) 26 copies

The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty: A Novel (2023) 17 copies

Facing Shadows (1996) 17 copies, 1 review

A Distant Center (2018) 15 copies, 1 review

Alive (A Vintage Short) (2014) 6 copies

A Composer and His Parakeets 3 copies

Cuo gou de shi guang: Ha Jin shi xuan (2011) 3 copies

Desde la sala de espera de mi viejo pastor: Convirtiendo el aguijón en arado (Spanish Edition) (2017) 3 copies

Saboteur [short story] 2 copies

The First Emperor: An Opera in Two Acts (2009) — Librettist; Libretto — 2 copies

In the Crossfire (in Granta 106 - CLARK) 1 copy

La mare (French Edition) (2004) 1 copy

Yang, el boig (2005) 1 copy

The Bridegroom [short story] 1 copy

Una llegada inesperada y otros relatos (2015) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001) — Contributor — 554 copies

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (2008) — Contributor — 520 copies, 11 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 1999 (1999) — Contributor — 460 copies

The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000) — Contributor — 399 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997) — Contributor — 340 copies, 1 review

Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (2010) — Contributor — 137 copies, 26 reviews

It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Contributor — 76 copies, 1 review

Novel Voices (2003) — Contributor — 56 copies

Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories (1995) — Contributor — 28 copies

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert: Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event (2018) — Preformer — 15 copies

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert [2018 TV special] (2018) — Actor — 5 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Xuefei Jin (金雪飞)
Birthdate: 1956-02-21
Gender: male
Nationality: China
USA
Birthplace: Lioaning, China
Education: Heilongjiang University
Shandong University
Brandeis University

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War Trash by Ha Jin

An interesting perspective told in a deeply boring manner.

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rdonovan | 29 other reviews | May 1, 2024 |

The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Ha Jin

Jin tells the story of an extraordinary personality from a culture that is to me quite unfamiliar, managing to make that culture accessible enough to appreciate that personality in context without being dry. He recreates Li Bai from skeletal and conflicting annals, his sympathetic novelistic imagination, and Li Bai’s poetry. A remarkable feat and a deeply enjoyable account of a flawed fantastic fascinating person, his poetry, and his world.

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nillacat | 1 other review | Apr 13, 2024 |

A Map of Betrayal: A Novel by Ha Jin

Espionage

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BooksInMirror | 24 other reviews | Feb 19, 2024 |

A Good Fall (Vintage International) by Ha Jin

Twelve stories with themes like immigrants in transition, culture clashes, vanity, identity, and family traditions. Ha Jin's characters are so well drawn they keep speaking to me after I have closed the book. I could see A Good Fall as a movie with interconnecting stories of Chinese immigrants living in Flushing, New York. Maybe they are all living in the same apartment and pass each other on the stairs? Each suffering their secrets in silence?
I do not think it is a spoiler to say that A Good Fall surprisingly ends on a hopeful note.… (more)

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SeriousGrace | 13 other reviews | Feb 15, 2024 |

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