Ha Jin. — The Crazed. A Novel.
New York, Pantheon, 2002, 1st US edition, 323,6) pag., hardcover with dustjacket. = Owner's name - else fine. Since the appearance of his first book of stories in English, Ha Jin has won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and garnered comparisons to Dickens, Balzac, and Isaac Babel. "Like Babel," wrote Francine Prose in The "New York Times Book Review," "Ha Jin observes everything . . yet he tells the reader only--and precisely--as much as is needed to make his deceptively simple fiction resonate on many levels.".