Ha jin presents war trash as the memoir of yu yuan, a chinese officer. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Tibet, the korean war, the cultural revolution, the tiananmen square incident. But in his new novel war trash, awardwinning author ha jin has chosen to focus on an even lessremembered aspect of that war. In 1951 yu yuan, a scholarly and selfeffacing clerical officer in maos volunteer army, is. In reading ha jin s powerfully moving war trash, one might be forgiven for forgetting that its a work of imaginative fiction and not a.
War trash fiction by the author ha jin and 20 similar books. Ha jins masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner. Sign me up to get more news about historical fiction books. Ha jins new novel is the fictional memoir of a chinese peoples volunteer, dispatched by his government to fight for the communist cause in. Ha jin project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks read. War trash, paperback by jin, ha, brand new, free shipping in the us. Many times throughout the book i had forgotten i was reading fiction. In reading ha jins powerfully moving war trash, one might be forgiven for forgetting. Because i failed to do something else, writing in english became my means of survival, of spending or wasting my life, of retrieving losses, mine and those of others. Because i failed to do something else, writing in english became my means of survival, of spending or wasting. His notable novels included waiting 2000 and war trash 2004. Ive never intended my writing to be political, but my characters. War trash vintage international kindle edition by jin, ha.
Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Although it is superbly written, it remains a piece of fiction. After the tiananmen massacre i became very outspoken. War trash by ha jin and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Click on below buttons to start download war trash by ha jin pdf epub without registration. Nov 11, 2005 war trash by ha jin 352pp, hamish hamilton. In 1951 yu yuan, a scholarly and selfeffacing clerical officer in maos volunteer army, is taken prisoner south of the 38th parallel. Ha jin author ha jinleft his native china in 1985 to attend brandeis university. In reading ha jins powerfully moving war trash, one might be forgiven for forgetting that its a work of imaginative fiction and not a. Dec 18, 2007 ha jin left his native china in 1985 to attend brandeis university. This could easily be mistaken as a memoir of the horror of war, and the humanity of its prisoners.
He was awarded the pen faulkner again in 2005 for war trash. Vivid in its historical detail, profound in its imaginative empathy, war trash is ha jins most ambitious book to date. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel waiting, which won the penfaulkner award and the national book award, and war trash, which won the penfaulkner award for fiction, and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize and the kiriyama pacific rim book prize. Chinese pows faced with the choice between repatriation and resettlement in free china, aka taiwan. The parallels with americas current war on terrorism are obvious, but jin, himself an exsoldier, is.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading war trash vintage international. War trash, the extraordinary new novel by the national book awardwinning author of waiting, is ha jins most ambitious work to date. Buy war trash by jin, ha from amazons fiction books store. His newest books are a free life 2007, the writer as migrant 2008, a good fall 2009 and nanjing requiem pantheon 2011. Ha jins subject is fascinating, but linguistic glitches let him down in war trash, says julia lovell.
War trash if you check best ha jin book series, then you will find this one easily. Ha jin has said that war trash will be his last book on china. The parallels with americas current war on terrorism. See all books authored by ha jin, including waiting, and war trash, and more on. Ha jins masterful new novel casts a searchlight into a forgotten corner of modern history, the experience of chinese soldiers held in u.
Yu yuan describes his ordeal after capture, when p. Jin began to educate himself in chinese literature and high school curriculum at sixteen. War trash, the extraordinary new novel by the national book award winning author of waiting, is ha jins most ambitious work to date. War trash vintage international by jin, ha book the fast free shipping.
Ha jins writing cv might reasonably leave any warmblooded author nearnauseous with envy. National book award winner ha jin writes about the tribulations of life in chinese society with dark humor and an economical but effective prose style. Ha jin earned his masters degree at shandong university in china, and in 1986 came to the united states to begin his doctoral work at brandeis. Ha jin, chinese american writer who used plain, unadorned english prose to explore the tension between the individual and the family, the modern and the traditional, and personal feelings and duty. Ha jin wrote war trash in english, so there is no falloff due to translation. It takes the form of a memoir written by the fictional character yu yuan, a man who eventually becomes a soldier in the chinese peoples volunteer army and who is sent to korea to fight on the communist side in the korean war. Another brilliant installment in ha jins history of modern china the crazed, 2002, etc. Doctorow who are the only other authors to have won the prize more than once. How might the loss of home experienced by yuan and the other prisoners compare to the life of the writer in exile. Blurb war trash is a novel by the chinese author ha jin, who has long lived in the united states and who writes in english. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel waiting, which won the penfaulkner award and the national book award, and war trash, which won the penfaulkner award for.
The story and characters are so well rounded and believable. Ha jin left his native china in 1985 to attend brandeis university. If you are still wondering how to get free pdf epub of book war trash by ha jin. War trash, however, is more than an account of a littleknown chapter of an oftenforgotten war. He has turned out remarkable novels, short stories, and poetry all the more remarkable considering he only began writing in english in the late 1980s. War trash is essentially fictional, the product of research and imagination. Set in 1951 and based on historical accounts, war trash takes the form of the memoir of yu yuan, a young chinese army officer, a volunteer fighting unofficially in korea when he is captured. If ha jin the author feels the full weight of the tattoo, he does so in his heart and mind. War trash is a novel by the chinese author ha jin, who has long lived in the united states and who writes in english. Ha jins new novel is the fictional memoir of a chinese peoples volunteer, dispatched by his government to fight for the communist cause in the korean war.
The novel war trash 2004, set during the korean war, won a second penfaulkner award for jin, thus ranking him with philip roth, john edgar wideman and e. Ha jin captured by enemy forces, yu yuan, a chinese army officer serving in korea in 1951, takes on the role of interpreter due to his proficiency in english, a role that places him in a conflict between. The majority of the memoir is devoted to describing. War trash, by ha jin pantheon books the pulitzer prizes.
Apr 07, 2020 he was awarded the pen faulkner again in 2005 for war trash. Almost every piece of fiction he has published in the past decade has won a major prize in the us, including two penfaulkner awards for his second novel, waiting 1999. War trash, the extraordinary new novel by the national book awardwinning author of waiting, is ha jin s most ambitious work to date. Ha jin 4 book set sale under the red flag war trash. War trash is a novel by the chinese author ha jin, who has long lived in the united states and. But yuan is canny enough to get by, and, having survived revolution, war, and prison, he manages to outlive the fanatics in the end. The crazed, a free life, war trashthese books offend the authorities in china.
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