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War Trash - Ha Jin

English
2005-05-10
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Ha Jinโ€™s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Maoโ€™s โ€œvolunteerโ€ army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Parallel. Because he speaks English, he soon becomes an intermediary between his compatriots and their America ... Full description

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Ha Jinโ€™s masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of Chinese soldiers held in U.S. POW camps during the Korean War. In 1951 Yu Yuan, a scholarly and self-effacing clerical officer in Maoโ€™s โ€œvolunteerโ€ army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Parallel. Because he speaks English, he soon becomes an intermediary between his compatriots and their American captors.With Yuan as guide, we are ushered into the secret world behind the barbed wire, a world where kindness alternates with blinding cruelty and one has infinitely more to fear from oneโ€™s fellow prisoners than from the guards. Vivid in its historical detail, profound in its imaginative empathy, War Trash is Ha Jinโ€™s most ambitious book to date.

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Author Ha Jin
Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Release year 2005
Cover type Softcover
EAN 9781400075799
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