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  by cowgirlout & 7 users

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Type: fiction

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Author: Ha Jin

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Description: Waiting allows us a realistic glimpse into other lives. The reader because so caught up inWaiting allows us a realistic glimpse into other lives. The reader because so caught up in the character's lives that we feel both their pain and numbness. In the end, we too are left wondering "Why?" and that is where we see the connection with our own lives. We are always yearning towards something we don't have, berating ourselves for not yet having reached the place in life that we would like, yet we are most truely happy when we are not worrying. Can we forget all that? This book accurately portrays not just actions and inactions but the thoughts behind them. and this, it seems, takes up the bulk of our energy....

2007-12-10

  by jeanned & 7 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: liked

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Author: Ha Jin

2007-10-18

  by jeanned & 2 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Ha Jin

2007-10-18

  by disturbedwater & 7 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Ha Jin

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Description: I usually don't end up loving novels that make me cry over and over again as I read it,I usually don't end up loving novels that make me cry over and over again as I read it, but 'Waiting' is one of the few exceptions. This is a beautiful, heartbreaking story that explores the complex emotions involved in, and the motivations behind a complex situation. ...

2006-11-21

  by julzddm & 7 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: finished

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Author: Ha Jin

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Tags: own

2006-11-01

  by chawanmushi & 7 users

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Type: fiction

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Author: Ha Jin

2005-11-04

  by annabel_lee & 7 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Ha Jin

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Tags: relationships love china marriage

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Description: A slooooooow, but lovely, book.

2005-10-04

  by henryflower & 7 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: liked

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Author: Ha Jin

2005-09-03