The Bridegroom: Stories

About the Author

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of two books of poetry; two previous collections of stories, Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; and two novels, In the Pond and Waiting, which won both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives near Atlanta, where he is Young J. Allen Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.