The Crazed
  • Published: 3 November 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099444886
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

The Crazed

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3 Nov 2003
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'Reading [Ha Jin] is almost like falling in love' New Yorker

Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family...

Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China convulsed by the Tiananmen uprising, those who listen to the truth are as much at risk as those who speak it. Lyrical and heart-breaking, The Crazed is an incisive portrait of modern Chinese society.
  • Published: 3 November 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099444886
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Ha Jin

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 for the USA. He is the author of six novels, including Waiting – winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2000 PEN/ Faulkner Award – In the Pond, The Crazed and his latest, Nanjing Requiem. He has also published four collections of stories and four volumes of poetry. He lives near Boston and teaches at Boston University

Also by Ha Jin

The Boat Rocker
The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty
A Song Everlasting
The Banished Immortal
The Boat Rocker - A Novel
A Map of Betrayal
Nanjing Requiem
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Praise for The Crazed

Expertly done

Daily Mail

A compelling book... [Jin] has a fine sense of the human scale of history and an eye for the absurd

Guardian

[Jin's] new novel...again demonstrates his literary gifts

The Times

A fascinating tale told with skill and eloquence; a truly wonderful read

Publishing News

The Crazed...is a complicated web of human attachments. Like the best realist writers, Ha Jin sneaks emotional power into the plainest declarative sentences

New Yorker