Ocean of words
army stories
by Ha Jin
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Ocean of Words is set on the Chinese-Russian border in the early 1970s. Soldiers and officers in the People's Liberation Army are trapped in lives shaped by the madness and perversity of the times. A brilliant portrait of collective fate, Ocean of Words resonates with the desperation and nobility of human desire.
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Hao bing
2003, Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
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Ocean of Words ("Hao Bing", in Traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
2003, Shi Bao Chu Ban
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Ocean of words: Army stories
1998, Vintage International
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Ocean of Words: Stories with Bookmark
August 1998, Vintage Books USA
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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 depth and liveliness that suggest Isaac Babel's Cossacks and Tim O'Brien's GIs. Ocean of Words is a triumphant volume, poignant, hilarious, and harrowing.
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