This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from Maoism towards a more open society. For these men and women, starting to feel the influence of the West, the daily dramas of a system that still struggles to control their every move and thought are made all the more painful by this. As his characters, from an entrepreneur, transformed from black-market criminal to free market hero, to the workers at Cowboy Chicken, to the professor mistaken by the police for a saboteur, continue to struggle against petty injustices and heartbreaks, Ha Jin celebrates their lives and humanity with the understated humour and simplicity that has won him widespread acclaim.
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"A genuine pleasure."
--"The New York Times Book Review
""Finely wrought... Every story here is cut like a stone."
--"Chicago Sun-Times"
""The Bridegroom,.". showcases [Ha Jin's] mastery of craft, the consummate restraint and nearly telegraphic objectivity with which he paints difficult truths."
--"The Boston Globe
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--"The New York Times Book Review
""Finely wrought... Every story here is cut like a stone."
--"Chicago Sun-Times"
""The Bridegroom,.". showcases [Ha Jin's] mastery of craft, the consummate restraint and nearly telegraphic objectivity with which he paints difficult truths."
--"The Boston Globe
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About the Author
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 for the States. He is a poet and author of two novels, Waiting (which won the US National Book Award and the Pen/Faulkner Award in 1999), and In the Pond, and two previous collections of stories, Ocean of Words (which won the Pen/Hemingway Award in 1997), and Under the Red Flag. He lives near Atlanta, where teaches English at Emory University.
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