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Title	:	Waiting
Author	:	Ha Jin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 310 pages
Published	:	September 19th 2000 by Vintage (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. China. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asia

Waiting Paperback | Pages: 310 pages

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In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years, this 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--a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different. Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom. Waiting charms and startles us with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves us with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.

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Original Title:	Waiting
ISBN:	0375706410 (ISBN13: 9780375706417)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2000), National Book Award for Fiction (1999), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2000)

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I so wanted to like this book. It won some awards and I had heard good things about it. But I found that I had no interest in the characters and really hated the time that I spent with them. I was happy for the book to end. I think that it was the author's intent for me to be frustrated with the characters and the title "Waiting" seemed to refer to the lives of these people, who could just never act or do the thing that they thought would make them happy. But the more I read, the more I felt

Ha Jin's Waitingcouldn't have been more aptly titled. You see, I picked it up while waiting for what we thought would be a quick fix of our car. (Boy! I couldn't have been more grateful that we stopped at the bookstore first.) While waiting, I knocked out about a 100 pages which turned out to be a good thing because I don't think I would have finished the book if I hadn't gotten so far into it. You see, its not a story with a whole lot of action, plot, and I never felt any emotional attachment

The premise of the novel is that waiting is an emotion. By the end of the book, I was ready to concede the point to the author as this was one of the most exasperating stories I've ever read. I really wearied of waiting for the culmination of the story. It's well written, that's not the issue. The story just drove me insane as we waited and waited and waited for Lin to get a spine and marry the woman he claimed to love. And she just dutifully waited and waited and waited....In all seriousness,

From the start I could not put this book down. The story intrigued me and I wanted to know the story behind it all. I can not understand that the rating of this book is low. The story is entertaining and reads fast. It also shows a lot of Chinese culture and how people deal with that. The life choices we make, the waiting we do in life.. 5 points.

This book had been haunting me for years and now that I've finished--it still haunts me.From the first page this book is hard to put down. Yet the writing at times feels like watching a foreign film where the drama on screen is over-acted, while the dialogue is understated. That disconnect never let me completely lose myself in the book.But, that might just be me. (I recently finished The Sympathizer, which swept me away).The story though and the window into China, post-revolution, is fantastic.

Overall, this book held my attention...but not through inspirational prose or even through a tight plot. It held me because I was never sure how to feel about Lin or Manna. At different times, I rooted for each of them (separately and together) and for their devotion to each other. At times I hated each of them for their weaknesses and selfish behavior. I wanted to find out what would happen to them and their relationship. Does waiting for someone for that long strengthen love? Or is it futile

i first came across this book in 2004. i have to admit that the politics alluded me, the history of communist china isnt exactly my thing, but what i got out of this book when i read it was the universality of the concept of waiting. when you think about it, we are all waitingfor something. we will spend our entire lives waiting for one thing or another, and each time we acquire what we were waiting for, we find something else to be waiting for. we always think that what we are waiting for is