Jin, Ha, 1956-

Nanjing requiem / Title on jacket: Nanjing requiem : a novel Ha Jin. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2011. - 303 p. : map ; 25 cm.

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

9780307379764 (hbk.) 0307379760

2010047608


Women missionaries--Fiction.
Americans--China--Fiction.
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.


Historical fiction.
War stories.

PS3560.I6 / N36 2011

813/.54 JIN