NMLP P-010939 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Waiting

Ha Jin · Pantheon Books · 1999

The US Pantheon hardcover of 1999 is the true first edition. It won the 1999 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-010939 for "Waiting" by Ha Jin (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-010939, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).