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Jin, Ha WAITING
William Heinemann 2000 0-434-00914-8 / 9780434009145 1st Edition Hardcover Fine/Fine
A crisp clean first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper, not an ex- lib, no markings throughout: "Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu." Like a fairy tale, Ha Jin's masterful novel of love and politics begins with a formula--and like a fairy tale, Waiting uses its slight, deceptively simple framework to encompass a wide range of truths about the human heart. Lin Kong is a Chinese army doctor trapped in an arranged marriage that embarrasses and repels him (Shuyu has country ways, a withered face, and most humiliating of all, bound feet. Nevertheless, he's content with his tidy military life, at least until he falls in love with Manna, a nurse at his hospital. Regulations forbid an army officer to divorce without his wife's consent--until 18 years have passed, that is, after which he is free to marry again. So, year after year Lin asks his wife for his freedom and year after year he returns from the provincial courthouse: still married, still unable to consummate his relationship with Manna. Nothing feeds love like obstacles placed in its way--right? But Jin's novel answers the question of what might have happened to Romeo and Juliet had their romance been stretched out for several decades. In the initial confusion of his chaste love affair, Lin longs for the peace and quiet of his "old rut". Then, killing time becomes its own kind of rut and in the end, he is forced to conclude that he "waited 18 years just for the sake of waiting".
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Ha, Jin Waiting
Random House October 5, 2000 0-09-928759-5 / 9780099287599 Paperback Near Fine
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: "Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu." Like a fairy tale, Ha Jin's masterful novel of love and politics begins with a formula--and like a fairy tale, Waiting uses its slight, deceptively simple framework to encompass a wide range of truths about the human heart. Lin Kong is a Chinese army doctor trapped in an arranged marriage that embarrasses and repels him. (Shuyu has country ways, a withered face, and most humiliating of all, bound feet.) Nevertheless, he's content with his tidy military life, at least until he falls in love with Manna, a nurse at his hospital. Regulations forbid an army officer to divorce without his wife's consent--until 18 years have passed, that is, after which he is free to marry again. So, year after year Lin asks his wife for his freedom, and year after year he returns from the provincial courthouse: still married, still unable to consummate his relationship with Manna. Nothing feeds love like obstacles placed in its way--right? But Jin's novel answers the question of what might have happened to Romeo and Juliet had their romance been stretched out for several decades. In the initial confusion of his chaste love affair, Lin longs for the peace and quiet of his "old rut." Then killing time becomes its own kind of rut, and in the end, he is forced to conclude that he "waited eighteen years just for the sake of waiting."
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Jin, Ha Waiting: A Novel
Vintage September 19, 2 0-375-70641-0 / 9780375706417 Paperback Near Fine
"Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu ." Like a fairy tale, Ha Jin's masterful novel of love and politics begins with a formula--and like a fairy tale, Waiting uses its slight, deceptively simple framework to encompass a wide range of truths about the human heart . Lin Kong is a Chinese army doctor trapped in an arranged marriage that em barrasses and repels him. (Shuyu has country ways, a withered face, and mos t humiliating of all, bound feet.) Nevertheless, he's content with his tidy military life, at least until he falls in love with Manna, a nurse at his hospital. Regulations forbid an army officer to divorce without his wife's consent--until 18 years have passed, that is, after which he is free to mar ry again. So, year after year Lin asks his wife for his freedom, and year a fter year he returns from the provincial courthouse: still married, still u nable to consummate his relationship with Manna. Nothing feeds love like ob stacles placed in its way--right? But Jin's novel answers the question of w hat might have happened to Romeo and Juliet had their romance been stretche d out for several decades. In the initial confusion of his chaste love affa ir, Lin longs for the peace and quiet of his "old rut." Then killing time b ecomes its own kind of rut, and in the end, he is forced to conclude that h e "waited eighteen years just for the sake of waiting." There's a political allegory here, of course, but it grows naturally from these characters' hearts. Neither Lin nor Manna is especially ideological, and the tumultuous events occurring around them go mostly unnoticed. They meet during a force
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