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The Bridegroom (short story collection)

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The Bridegroom
First edition
AuthorHa Jin
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort stories
Set inChina
PublisherPantheon
Publication date
October 3, 2000
Publication placeUnited States
Pages225

The Bridegroom is a collection of twelve short stories by Chinese-American author Ha Jin. The stories are set in Muji City in contemporary China, the same provincial city that served as the setting for his novel Waiting.

Contents

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Story Originally published in
"Saboteur" The Antioch Review
"Alive" AGNI
"In the Kindergarten" Five Points
"A Tiger-Fighter Is Hard to Find" The Oxford American
"Broken" Columbia
"The Bridegroom" Harper's
"An Entrepreneur's Story" Witness
"Flame" Missouri Review
"A Bad Joke" Manoa
"An Official Reply" Shenandoah
"The Woman from New York" The Boston Book Review
"After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" TriQuarterly

"Saboteur," "The Bridegroom," and "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" were subsequently included in The Best American Short Stories series.[1]

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