Critical Praise

"A work of literature, in the highest tradition of Anton Chekhov or Yasunari Kawabata, suffused with an aching purity."

——Houston Chronicle

"Ha Jin takes the lead of ordinary life and turns it into gold. . . . Haunting . . . wrenching. . . . A work that deserves to be immortal."

——The Washington Post

"A work of enormous intelligence. Piercing, critical, but leavened by Jin's understated prose, The Crazed is a substantial addition to the corpus of a great author."

——San Francisco Chronicle