- Communes (China), Working class, City and town life, Fiction
Set in the northern provincial commune town of Dismount Fort, In the Pond tells the story of Shao Bin, a worker at the Harvest Fertilizer plant who aims above his station. Passed over on the list to receive a larger apartment, while those in favor with the party are selected ahead of him, Shao Bin chafes at his powerlessness until he hits upon a solution: placing a satirical cartoon in the provincial newspaper.
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Classical in form, cool, prestige and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Ha Jin
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 178
- Publisher
- Zoland Books, Vintage International, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780944072929
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“SHAO BIN FELT SICK of Dismount Fort, a commune town where he had lived for over six years.”
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