War Trash, Ha JinHa 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 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

Tokyo’s famous book district

he has educated himself by watching television extensively

and I thought to myself: I've had enough of feeling like this

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Eliot described as a 'creepy crawly imagination'

from the centuries of the colonial slave trade to our own tumultuous era

” —The Wall Street Journal

and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street

2014 National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Bestseller

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'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid

but pay for unnecessary drugs