The Bridegroom: Stories by Jin, Ha

The Bridegroom: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375724930)

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Format: Paperback
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The Bridegroom: Stories by Jin, Ha

The Bridegroom: Stories

$15.95
The Bridegroom: Stories by Jin, Ha

The Bridegroom: Stories

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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From the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, a collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful.

In the title story, the head of security at a factory is shocked, first when the hansomest worker on the floor proposes marriage to his homely adopted daughter, and again when his new son-in-law is arrested for the "crime" of homosexuality. In "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town," the workers at an American-style fast food franchise receive a hilarious crash course in marketing, deep frying, and that frustrating capitalist dictum, "the customer is always right."Ha Jin has triumphed again with his unforgettable storytelling in The Bridegroom.

Author: Ha Jin
ISBN-10: 0375724931
ISBN-13: 9780375724930
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2001
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 09/14/2001 pg. 85
New York Times 09/30/2001 pg. 24
New York Times 12/02/2001 pg. 88
By Ha Jin
By Ha Jin
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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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