by Ha Jin
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My thanks to LuAnn Walther for her critical and careful attention to the manuscript; to Lane Zachary for her enthusiasm and suggestions; to my son, Wen, for providing information on U.S. weaponry; to my wife, Lisha, who persuaded me to write this book.
HA JIN
WAR TRASH
Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Waiting, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award; the story collections The Bridegroom, which won the Asian American Literary Award, Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award; the novels The Crazed and In the Pond; and three books of poetry. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University.
ALSO BY HA JIN
FICTION
Ocean of Words
Under the Red Flag
In the Pond
Waiting
The Bridegroom
The Crazed
POETRY
Between Silences
Facing Shadows
Wreckage
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