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c2002., Pantheon Books Call No: Fic Jin Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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2012, c2011., Vintage International/Vintage Books Call No: Fic Jin Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrinan American missionary and the dean of Jinling Womenœs Collegedecides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle, day after day, to intercede on behalf of the hapless victims. Even when order and civility are eventually restored, Vautrin remains deeply embattled, and she is haunted by the lives she could not save.With extraordinarily evocative precision, Ha Jin re-creates the terror, the harrowing deprivations, and the menace of unexpected violence that defined life in Nanjing during the occupation. In Minnie Vautrin he has given us an indelible portrait of a woman whose convictions and bravery prove, in the end, to be no match for the maelstrom of history. At once epic and intimate, Nanjing Requiem is historical fiction at its most resonant.
