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by: Ha Jin  List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781400075799 ISBN: 1400075793 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: May 10, 2005 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: May 10, 2005 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Ha Jin’s 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 Mao’s “volunteer” 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 one’s fellow prisoners than from the guards. Vivid in its historical detail, profound in its imaginative empathy, War Trash is Ha Jin’s most ambitious book to date. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - PowerfulA detailed, beautifully observed portrait of a Chinese POW during the Korean War. Written in a documentary style, the author manages to convey emotion without melodrama. A powerful depiction of an overlooked period. Rating:  - simple prose, objective, convincing charactersHa Jin has a simple, but effective prose style. He objectively utilizes historical material, while portraying convincing individuals. In "War Trash" he takes what could have been a dreary re-creation of prison life for Chinese prisoners of the U.S. during the Korean War, and makes it quite interesting without the use of melodrama. It helps that his protagonist, a young man with some education, is a very engaging personality who matures and grows in self confidence as the novel progresses. ... Read More Rating:  - A Documentary NovelWar Trash, a novel which is outwardly about the Korean War, is really a way for Ha Jin to explore the shortcomings of the two systems of government available for Chinese people: the Nationalist system in Taiwan, and the Communist on mainland China. As in Ha Jin's novel Waiting, political systems and their answers to human dilemmas are always lacking. When people seek to solve life's deep problems with political solutions, the results are always violent and inadequate. This novel has a documentary feel to ... Read More Rating: - My favorite work of fictionWar Trash not only entertains, but it teaches in a way that few books can. When reading the book, I felt trapped in the socialist-nationalist political tension that turned ordinary people into cruel, violent zealots. Throughout the book, the action gripped me and made me care about the protagonist and his family. In that sense, this book shined as a work of fiction. But more importantly, War Trash taught me a great deal about how people view the political "other", and specifically about how the ... Read More Rating: - Great prose and storyAfter enjoying "Waiting", I read this one and was not disappointed. Ha Jin is simply an outstanding author. In this book, he not only offers beautiful prose, but also a very interesting story. It is well researched (it is fiction) story of a Chinese POW during the Korean war. Ha Jin offers readers a fresh new way of viewing war. There are no good guys or bad guys. I am amazed that Ha Jin can write so well in his second language. Very talented author. Highly recommended! You won't be disappointed. 
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