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.
- ISBN10 0375424652
- ISBN13 9780375424656
- Publish Date 30 October 2007 (first published 31 December 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 May 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pantheon Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 660
- Language English