Waiting
by Ha Jin
Taste attributes: dramaromancehistoricalslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticlinearenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiptroubled leadssocial commentary
Boxlist takeA stirring novel that is grounded, serious and unhurried. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
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Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every year he visits her in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce.
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- Author
- Ha Jin
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 308
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- Open Library
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