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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. 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 WAITING charms and startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.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. 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 WAITING charms and startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.
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Fiction, Physicians, Married people, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), China, History, Literature, Romance, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=1999, award:national_book_award=fiction, PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, award:pen_faulkner_award=2000, award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, Psychological fiction, Large type books, China, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Physicians, fiction, Fiction, general, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Triangle (Relations humaines), Romans, nouvelles, Couples mariés, Médecins, Histoire, Fiction, romance, generalPlaces
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August 28, 2001, Paperback Nova Audio Books
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2000, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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