How is it that, as a reporter at a press conference during a German book tour wondered, "a Chinese man with indifferent English has been able to win two of America's most important literary prizes?"
到德國辦新書巡迴發表會，德國記者則有個疑問：「哈金，這個英語講的不怎麼樣的中國人，為什麼能夠一次摘下兩項美國文壇最重要的獎項？」