Ha jin’s waiting, a love story set in china at at the time of the cultural Revolution, won last year US National book Award faction, and has just received the less munificent, but classier, PEN/Faulkner award. dubbed then, on both shoulders - once by the book- buying public, one by the literati. waitin is a 1999 novel by chinese-american author Ha Jin which won the book award this story based on true story