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Rent Waiting
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Sep 2000
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 308
Synopsis
An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he has fallen in love and the traditional, meek, and humble woman to whom his family married him when they were both very young. National Book Award & Pen/Faulkner Award Winner. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.
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