FAQ



Sell Back Books To sell books or sell textbooks to us, enter your ISBN numbers here, one book per line. Please include all 10 or 13 digits. Enter as many books as you like: EXAMPLE: 1864502800 1741040914 978-0195174625 ENTER ISBNs THEN CLICK HERE

Waiting: A Novel

Ha Jin

Buy this book
from Amazon

More from this reviewer

More buyback

Sell textbooks

Book buyback

Sell textbooks online

See other book reviews:
Fiction
All Book Reviews

Waiting Ha Jin "I read Waiting because it won a National Book Award. I mean it's one of the most beautifully written books that I've read in a long time. The subject matter hovers a little bit much more laborious. It is appropriately named Waiting, and it is about waiting. The story is about an officer in the people's - Chinese People's Republic Army, and he falls in love with a nurse. But he had an arranged marriage, and he can't get out of his arranged marriage; so it's about waiting, and it's about indecision, and it's about not stepping up and really getting what you want out of life. It was interesting because it's about a culture that I don't know a lot about. I don't know a lot about China, or I don't know a lot about Communism, so the writing is gorgeous, the story is a little bit slow, and I found it frustrating. I would give it a - I guess a three-star rating, just 'cause I can't - I really do want to acknowledge the fact that it was an extraordinary read; but the content was kind of like eh."