A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin [in Shelf Awareness]
12 Jul, by Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost
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Powerlessness pervades Ha Jin's perceptive A Song Everlasting, as his protagonist leaves fame and familiarity in one country to flee toward ambiguity and adaptation in another. Freedom, Yao Tian reasons, is his driving motive. National Book Award-winner Jin (A Map of Betrayal), notable for empathically crafting...