Literary places in Manchuria

Waiting

Ha Jin

For eighteen years the army doctor Lin Kong shuttles between his home village, where his dutiful arranged wife Shuyu lives, and the city hospital where he loves the modern nurse Manna Wu, bound by a rule that will not let him divorce until the couple have lived apart for eighteen years. Ha Jin sets his quiet tragedy of thwarted love in a real Manchuria: the northern farm village, the county divorce court, and the army hospital city of the Chinese northeast.

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