description: For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young. Every year he visits her in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different WAITING charms and startles with its depiction of a China that remains hidden to Western eyes even as it moves with its piercing vision of the universal complications of love.
language: English
title: Waiting
titlecomplete: Waiting (Export Only)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, China, Literature, Romance, Asian Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 21911
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage Books