Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400075799ISBN-10:1400075793UPC:9781400075799Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, War & Military, HistoricalSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCTT8V7ZBP
War Trash
Ha Jin'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 Mao's "volunteer" army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th Parallel. Because he speaks English, he soon becomes an intermediary between his compatriots and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400075799ISBN-10:1400075793UPC:9781400075799Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, War & Military, HistoricalSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCTT8V7ZBP
Ha Jinleft his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award, and War Trash, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize; the story collections The Bridegroom, which won the Asian...
Publisher: Vintage
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