Waiting (novel)

Waiting (novel)

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name = Waiting
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author = Ha Jin
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Pantheon Press
pub_date = 1 October 1999
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 320
isbn = ISBN 978-0375406539
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Waiting: a Novel is a novel by award-winning author Ha Jin. It received the 1999 National Book Award.It is about the life of a military officer in modern China who finds himself waiting 18 years to divorce his wife for another woman all the while fearing prosecution for hanging out with the chick he wants to marry.


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