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Nanjing requiem / Ha Jin.
Van Pelt Library PS3560.I6 N36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jin, Ha, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women missionaries--Fiction.
- Women missionaries.
- Americans--China--Fiction.
- Americans.
- China.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--China--Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)--Fiction.
- Nanjing, Battle of, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937--Fiction.
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction.
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- War stories.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Title on jacket: Nanjing requiem : a novel
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780307379764
- 0307379760
- OCLC:
- 683247720
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