Ha Jin - Nanjing Requiem

BU professor and author of the NBA-winning Waiting and PEN/Faulkner-winning War Trash returns to the Booksmith to share his latest novel. In 1937, American missionary Minnie Vautrin remains in Nanjing to protect the Chinese men and women who work for her from the Japanese invasion. Instead, she becomes witness to one of the 20^th century’s worst atrocities—the Rape of Nanjing.