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Nanjing requiem : [a novel]  Cover Image Book Book

Nanjing requiem : [a novel] / Ha Jin.

Jin, Ha, 1956- (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307379764 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 0307379760
  • Physical Description: 303 p. : map ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Subtitle from cover.
Map on lining papers.
Summary, etc.:
During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.
Subject: Women missionaries > Fiction.
Americans > China > Fiction.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 > China > Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) > Fiction.
Nanjing, Battle of, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 > Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
War stories.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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Syndetic Solutions - Author Notes for ISBN Number 9780307379764
Nanjing Requiem : A Novel
Nanjing Requiem : A Novel
by Jin, Ha
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Author Notes

Nanjing Requiem : A Novel

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 and is now a professor of English at Emory University. He is author of, among other works, two short-story collections: Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for fiction in 1999. He lives in Atlanta. (Bowker Author Biography)


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