A Free Life A Free Life

A Free Life

A Novel

    • 3.9 • 7 Ratings
    • $11.99
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

A New York Times Notable Book

One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate

 In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes on a number of menial jobs, eventually operating a restaurant with Pingping, he struggles to adapt to the American way of life and to hold his family together, even as he pines for a woman he loved and lost in his youth. Ha Jin's prodigious talents are in full force as he brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes of the contemporary immigrant experience.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2007
October 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
672
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Okp565 ,

Good book, poor formatting

Great book that portrays the immigrant experience in a fresh voice. However, the iBook formatting leaves much to be desired. The first letter of each of the lines of the poems at the end are cut off.

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