Author Description

Much as exile was a key theme of 20th-century literature, the theme of migration has emerged as a keystone of 21st-century writing. Drawing from his own experience, from the Chinese Popular Army during the Cultural Revolution, to his position as a professor at the University of Chicago, Ha Jin approaches other exiled literary figures in search of commonalities and differences across place and time. In this book, he asks fascinating questions about language, migration, and place in an increasingly globalized world.