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This is the story of Lin Kong, a man residing in two worlds, fighting the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of society made to control his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years, this devoted and ambitious doctor has been around love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back the original world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young - a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. Within a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery learned by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lin's passionate love is stretched a lot more taut by the passing years. Every summer season, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time around, Lin promises, will be different. Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a location where the demand of human longing must cope with the weight of centuries of custom. Longing charms and startles us using its depiction of any China that remains hidden to Western eye even as it moves us using its piercing perspective of the common problems of love.
