Nanjing Requiem
- ISBN-10
- 030774373X
- ISBN-13
- 9780307743732
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10-02
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Ha Jin
Description
During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.
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