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War Trash

(Vintage International)

By Ha Jin

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| Paperback | 9781400075799

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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 priContinue

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 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 one’s fellow prisoners than from the guards. Vivid in its historical detail, profound in its imaginative empathy, War Trash is Ha Jin’s most ambitious book to date.

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  • Fighting for Mao

    War Trash by Ha Jin 352pp, Hamish Hamilton, £14.99 Ha Jin's writing CV might reasonably leave any warm-blooded author near-nauseous with envy. Almost every piece of fiction he has published in the past decade has won a major prize in the US, includin ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • War Trash By Ha Jin

    Called the "forgotten war" by at least one of its chroniclers, the Korean War had consequences that are rather more difficult to forget: a hostile and impoverished North Korea run by a pudgy dictator, and one of the largest concentrations of American ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 368 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1400075793
  • ISBN-13: 9781400075799
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: May 10, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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