- Prisoners of war, Prisoners and prisons, Chinese, PEN/Faulkner Award Winner
Set in 1951–53, ***War Trash*** takes the form of the memoir of Yu Yuan, a young Chinese army officer, one of a corps of “volunteers” sent by Mao to help shore up the Communist side in Korea.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Ha Jin
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si, Vintage International, Pantheon Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9781400075799
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