Title: Excellent Book about a Difficult Subject
Product review: Ha Jin is one of my favorite writers. This book demonstrates his skill in dealing with difficult and highly politicized situations by focusing on their effects on individuals. The situation explored here is that of Chinese prisoners in U.S. run prisoner of war camps in South Korea during the Korean War. Our hero is a loyal member of the People' Liberation Army who is subjected to pressures not just from his American captors but also from the Nationalist Chinese who are delegated some of the chores of dealing with prisoners and the Chinese Communists who continue to lead the captives while they are imprisoned. The writing is spare and mostly descriptive, but at times the emotional level goes way up and the author reveals them losing their heads over sometimes not very important matters.
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