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.