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NY: Vintage. VG PB. (1996). 3rd ptg. On the chilly border between Russian & China, early 1970s, when two giants are poised on the brink of war Chinese soldiers must . constantly scrutinize the enemy for signs of bourgeois liberalism. .
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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- Crabtree's Collection Old Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS027700I
- Title
- Ocean of Words
- Author
- Jin, Ha
- Book Condition
- Used - VG PB
- Edition
- 3rd ptg
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (1996)
- Keywords
- On the chilly border between Russian & China, early 1970s, when two, giants are poised on the brink of war Chinese soldiers must, China, Soldiers, Social customs
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