War Trash

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Reprint

Description: 350 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. An Intimate Portrait Of A Young Man Coming Of Age Against A Sweeping Canvas Of Destruction

Publishers Description: Ha Jins 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 Maos œvolunteer 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 ones fellow prisoners than from the guards. Vivid in its historical detail, profound in its imaginative empathy, War Trash is Ha Jins most ambitious book to date.

ISBN: 9780241143292