From the remarkable Ha Jin winner of the National Book Award for hiscelebrated novel Waiting a collection of comical and deeply moving tales ofcontemporary Chin... » 

From the remarkable Ha Jin winner of the National Book Award for hiscelebrated novel Waiting a collection of comical and deeply moving tales ofcontemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprisingdisturbing and delightful.In the title story the head of security at a factory is shocked first whenthe hansomest worker on the floor proposes marriage to his homely adopteddaughter and again when his new soninlaw is arrested for the crime ofhomosexuality. In After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town the workers at anAmericanstyle fast food franchise receive a hilarious crash course inmarketing deep frying and that frustrating capitalist dictum the customeris always right.Ha Jin has triumphed again with his unforgettable storytellingin The Bridegroom. «