Pre-Owned The Boat Rocker - A Novel (Hardcover) by Ha Jin

from DetailMuse

I appreciated Ha Jin's In the Pond for its look inside rural communist China, and was interested to further explore Chinese culture with him -- this time alongside peeks into journalism, publishing and US-China relations. In this short novel, Feng Danlin, a twentysomething Chinese expat and inve...

from thewanderingjew

The Boat Rocker, Ha Jin, author; Edoardo Ballerini, narrator Feng Danlin and Yan Haili, were married in China. He was an unsophisticated, aspiring author, and she turned out to be a scheming young woman who also imagined herself as a writer, He loved her and believed her love for him was sincere....

from quaintlittlehead

I can't believe this book was by the same author of "Waiting," and actually written after such a far superior book. Ha Jin takes raw materials that ought to be intriguing--a novel exploiting a fictitious "autobiographical" account of events including 9/11 with echoes of James Frey's "A Million Li...

from gypsysmom

I am endlessly fascinated by immigrant stories. It seems to me such a brave thing to leave your home country and probably some close relations to go to a foreign land. It is especially amazing to me when people who do not speak the language of the country where they are heading. This is a novel a...