OCEAN OF WORDS: Army Stories.
by Jin, Ha
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0944072585
- ISBN 13
- 9780944072585
- Seller
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Trenton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Nelson & Nelson, Booksellers (Wise Street Books) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31031
- Title
- OCEAN OF WORDS: Army Stories.
- Author
- Jin, Ha
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0944072585
- ISBN 13
- 9780944072585
- Publisher
- Zoland Books,
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. :
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 0944072585, China
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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