It’s 1937, and the Japanese are 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 and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle, day after day, to intercede on the behalf of the hapless victims. Yet even when order and civility are restored, she remains deeply embattled, always haunted by the lives she could not save.
At once a searing story that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century and an indelible portrait of a singular and brave woman, Nanjing Requiem is another tour de force from the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting.
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"Subtle and powerful." --The New York Times Book Review
"Crushingly beautiful, achingly sad. . . . What you most remember, once you put down the book, is not agony and hopelessness, not darkness and blood, but rather the reach of human goodness." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "Remarkable. . . . Profoundly moving." --The Plain Dealer "Wonderful. . . . [Ha Jin's] control over his characters is masterful; Japanese characters can be kindly, victims can be stridently impatient for vengeance. All are human." --Washington Independent Review of Books "Nanjing Requiem is both plainspoken and revelatory, the saddest of Ha Jin's novels. After this past decade of armed conflict, which has put millions of civilians at risk, his reminder of the human costs of war is also, unfortunately, timely." --The Boston Globe "An affecting, insightful portrait." --The Oregonian"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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