# The Bridegroom

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- Authors: [Ha Jin](https://www.bookquiver.com/ha-jin)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-10-04
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Short stories

## Description

This new collection of short stories by the award-winning author of Waiting confirms Ha Jin's reputation as a master storyteller, as well as a master of the miniature. In The Bridegroom , the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from Maoism towards a more open society. For these men and women, starting to feel the influence of the West, the daily dramas of a system that still struggles to control their every move and thought are made all the more painful. As his characters, from an entrepreneur, transformed from black-market criminal to free market hero, to the workers at Cowboy Chicken, to the professor mistaken by the police for a saboteur, continue to struggle against petty injustices and heartbreaks, Ha Jin celebrates their lives and humanity with the understated humour and simplicity that has won him widespread acclaim.

## Editions

### The Bridegroom

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0702-029-7
- Published: 2008-12-26
- Language: en_GB

### The Bridegroom

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9942-217-4
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2001-10-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Bridegroom

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7572-493-0
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2001-09-11
- Language: en_US