A Good Fall
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom, National Book Award-winning author Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. A lonely composer takes comfort in the antics of his girlfriend's parakeet; young children decide to change their names so they might sound more "American," unaware of how deeply this will hurt their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. All of Ha Jin's characters struggle to remain loyal to their homeland and its traditions while also exploring the freedom that life in a new country offers. Stark, deeply moving, acutely insightful, and often strikingly humorous, A Good Fall reminds us once again…
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October 19, 2010
HA JIN left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of eight novels, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a biography of Li Bai, and a book of essays. He has received the National Book Award, two PEN/ Faulkner Awards, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. In 2014 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a professor in the creative writing program at Boston University.
Ha Jin is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit www.prhspeakers.com.
Waiting
Ha Jin
A Song Everlasting
Ha Jin
The Banished Immortal
Ha Jin
The Boat Rocker
Ha Jin
A Map of Betrayal
Ha Jin
Alive
Ha Jin
Nanjing Requiem
Ha Jin
A Good Fall
Ha Jin
A Free Life
Ha Jin
War Trash
Ha Jin
The Crazed
Ha Jin
The Bridegroom
Ha Jin
Waiting
Ha Jin
In the Pond
Ha Jin
The Thinking Heart
David Grossman
Voices of the Fallen Heroes
Yukio Mishima
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
Tomás Nevinson
Javier Marías
Knight's Gambit
William Faulkner
Answered Prayers
Truman Capote
The Rainbow
Yasunari Kawabata
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy
The Singularities
John Banville
Mosquitoes
William Faulkner
Soldiers' Pay
William Faulkner
Coexistence
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Shashi Bhat
Normal Rules Don't Apply
Kate Atkinson
Last Woman
Carleigh Baker
Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
The Goodbye Cat
Hiro Arikawa, Translated by Philip Gabriel
Uncertain Kin
Janice Lynn Mather
Sans Souci
Dionne Brand
Games and Rituals
Katherine Heiny
Animal Person
Alexander MacLeod
Stray Dogs
Rawi Hage
Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality
Lindsay Wong