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  • Waiting
    Waiting
    by Ha Jin
    Hardcover: Oct 1999
    Paperback: Sep 2000
     
    Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling.
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  • Waiting for Eden
    Waiting for Eden
    by Elliot Ackerman
    Hardcover: Sep 2018
    Paperback: Sep 2019
     
    From the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that traces the intersection of three star-crossed lives.
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  • The Walking People
    The Walking People
    by Mary Beth Keane
    Hardcover: May 2009
    Paperback: May 2010
     
    Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York. Fifty years later, when the Ireland of her memory bears little resemblance to that of present day, she fears that it...
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  • The Wall
    The Wall
    by John Lanchester
    Hardcover: Mar 2019
    Paperback: Mar 2020
     
    The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time.
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  • The Wangs vs. the World
    The Wangs vs. the World
    by Jade Chang
    Hardcover: Oct 2016
    Paperback: Jun 2017
     
    A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent - and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together.
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  • War Trash
    War Trash
    by Ha Jin
    Hardcover: Oct 2004
    Paperback: May 2005
     
    A powerful, unflinching novel that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known war: the experiences of Chinese POWs held by Americans during the Korean conflict.
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  • Washington Black
    Washington Black
    by Esi Edugyan
    Hardcover: Sep 2018
    Paperback: Apr 2019
     
    A dazzling new novel about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.
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  • The Wasted Vigil
    The Wasted Vigil
    by Nadeem Aslam
    Hardcover: Sep 2008
    Paperback: Sep 2009
     
    The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel—at once lyrical and blistering—about war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan.
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