Ha Jin Interview

Yesterday I was listening to NPR (as you do) when I heard Diane Rehm rasping out something about the Rape of Nanking. I told my kid to go run in circles until he fell down (he thinks it’s fun) so I could listen. She was interviewing Ha Jin, one of my favorite authors, about his newest novel, Nanjing Requiem. He doesn’t talk much about his writing process (except how he had to rewrite the entire book- it took him two years- because the first POV he used didn’t work) but he does talk a lot about Nanking.

Interview

This link goes to the transcript but if you have an hour to spare you might prefer listening to the interview. It’s rare but in this case the spoken word makes more sense than the written one!