Nanjing Requiem

by Ha Jin

Book Overview

The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing. ? In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin--an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women's College--decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307379760
• ISBN13: 9780307379764
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"