by Ha Jin · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099453598
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«The Crazed» is the contemporary fiction novel by Ha Jin, published by Vintage in paperback (320 pages, in English).
A literature professor named Yang suffers a stroke and his student Jian Wan, engaged to his daughter, is left to care for the sick man. Amid delirium, Yang denounces his family, his colleagues and the Chinese university system; Jian does not know whether these are symptoms of a damaged mind or an uncomfortable truth in a China stirred by the Tiananmen protests.
The novel was published in 2003. Ha Jin won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel Waiting.
For readers of contemporary fiction and narrative with historical and political background about China.
Jin Xuefei is a Chinese American poet and novelist who uses the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). The name Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement.
