The Crazed

In his luminous novel, the author of "Waiting" deepens his portrait of contemporary Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, loyalty and betrayal.

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel <b>Waiting</b><i>,</i> which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award; the story collections <b>The Bridegroom</b><i>,</i> which won the Asian American Literary Award, <b>Under the Red Flag</b><i>,</i> which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and <b>Ocean of Words</b><i>,</i> which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the novel <b>In the Pond</b>; and three books of poetry. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.