Praise for Ha Jin

“Ha Jin is no stranger to history. He documented the Cultural Revolution in his award-winning Waiting... He recorded the phenomenon of Asian immigration in A Good Fall… He memorialized the Korean War in War Trash… He has told the Asian American story in a multitude of incarnations. It is as if his whole purpose in writing is to record the business of jarring cultural change."—Marie Arana, Washington Post

“One might easily take The Banished Immortal, his first work of nonfiction, as a departure from his previous work. But a close reading suggests that it is a return to his early themes, and a tribute to the poet he was before making his mark as a novelist... The Banished Immortal is a biography, but it is also a document in which a rootless writer nods to the past inside him. Writing about Li Bai—his life, his work, and his country—Jin finally returns home."—Han Zhang, New Yorker

“Mixing autobiography with invented other voices, [Between Silences] is an extraordinary meditation on what it means to have lived the history of China in the second half of the twentieth century. At its best, Ha Jin's language is as accessible, penetrating, and mysterious as Pound's Cathay."—Frank Bidart