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This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from Maoism towards a more open society. For these men and women, starting to feel the influence of the West, the daily dramas of a system that still struggles to control their every move and thought are made all the more painful. As his characters, from an entrepreneur, transformed from black-market criminal to free market hero, to the workers at Cowboy Chicken, to the professor mistaken by the police for a saboteur, continue to struggle against petty injustices and heartbreaks, Ha Jin celebrates their lives and humanity with the understated humour and simplicity that has won him widespread acclaim.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Bridegroom
• Author: ha Jin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780099422174
• ID: 04016278
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 176 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 130 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. October 2001

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