Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English Chinese
Subjects
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
ChinaTimes
1949-1976Showing 10 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
01 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
02
Deng dai
2000, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
in Chinese
- Chu ban
957133202X 9789571332024
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
03 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
04 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
05 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
06 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
07 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
08 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
09 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
10 |
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Source records
Scriblio MARC recordInternet Archive item record
marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record
Library of Congress MARC record
Internet Archive item record
Promise Item
marc_nuls MARC record
marc_columbia MARC record
Work Description
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.
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?November 17, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
September 28, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
April 29, 2022 | Edited by AgentSapphire | //covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12728282-S.jpg |
April 29, 2022 | Edited by AgentSapphire | Merge works |
October 8, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | create work page |