Ocean of Words Stories

Name: Ocean of Words Stories
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ISBN: 9780375702068

ISBN-10: 0375702067

ISBN-13: 9780375702068

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Authors: Ha Jin

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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award The place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers who must constantly scrutinize the enemy even as they themselves are watched for signs of the fatal disease of bourgeois liberalism. In Ocean of Words, the Chinese writer Ha Jin explores the predicament of these simple, barely literate men with breathtaking concision and humanity. From amorous telegraphers to a pugnacious militiaman, from an inscrutable Russian prisoner to an effeminate but enthusiastic recruit, Ha Jin's characters possess a…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.22" wide x 7.95" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 and is now a professor of English at Emory University. He is author of, among other works, two short-story collections: Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for fiction in 1999. He lives in Atlanta.