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Ha Jin: The Bridegroom

In The Bridegroom, the twelve stories capture a China in transition, moving from Maoism towards a more open society. For these men and women, starting to feel the influence of the West, the daily dramas of a system that still struggles to control their..
ISBN: 9780099422174
Author: Ha Jin
Page: 225
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2001
Format: Book
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
Language: English

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... every move and thought are made all the more painful by this. As his characters, from an entrepreneur, transformed from black-market criminal to free market hero, to the workers at Cowboy Chicken, to the professor mistaken by the police for a saboteur, continue to struggle against petty injustices and heartbreaks, Ha Jin celebrates their lives and humanity with the understated humour and simplicity that has won him widespread acclaim.

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