The Bridegroom (short story collection)
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Author | Ha Jin |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Short stories |
Set in | China |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Publication date | October 3, 2000 |
Pages | 225 |
The Bridegroom is a collection of twelve short stories by Chinese-American author Ha Jin. The stories are set in Muji City in contemporary China, the same provincial city that served as the setting for his novel Waiting.
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Story | Originally published in |
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"Saboteur" | The Antioch Review |
"Alive" | AGNI |
"In the Kindergarten" | Five Points |
"A Tiger-Fighter Is Hard to Find" | The Oxford American |
"Broken" | Columbia |
"The Bridegroom" | Harper's |
"An Entrepreneur's Story" | Witness |
"Flame" | Missouri Review |
"A Bad Joke" | Manoa |
"An Official Reply" | Shenandoah |
"The Woman from New York" | The Boston Book Review |
"After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" | TriQuarterly |
"Saboteur," "The Bridegroom," and "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" were subsequently included in The Best American Short Stories series.[1]
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Categories:
- American short story collections
- 2000 short story collections
- Asian-American short story collections
- Short story collections by Ha Jin
- Single-writer short story collections
- Pantheon Books books