The Bridegroom (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ha Jin
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: 1980’s
- Setting: The fictional town of Muji City, in northeastern China, and its surroundings
- Principal Characters: Chiu Maguang, Fenjin, Tong Guhan, Wang Hupin, Wang Tingting, Shen Manjin, Huang Baowen, Beina, Nimei, Fang Baichen, Chen Jinli, Peter (Peihai) Jiao
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, 1980’s, Revenge, Cruelty, China or Chinese people
- Locales: China
Ha Jin, a professor of English at Emory University, won the National Book Award for his novel Waiting (1999) and has also published In the Pond (1998), another novel, the short-story collections Ocean of Words (1998) and Under the Red Flag (1997), and the poetry collections Facing Shadows (1996) and Between Silences (1990). This is an impressive body of English-language work for a writer who only emigrated to the United States from his native China in 1985.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the characters of Ha Jin’s collection of...
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