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Review title: Wonderful, spare stories
Product review: Ha Jin returns again and again to the same setting - the Chinese army encampments on the frozen and tense Sino-Soviet border of the 1970s -- and comes back with wonderful, spare stories. Basically, they are about people who stubbornly remain human - frail, passionate, frightened - despite a system that tries to bend them into something else. I especially like the way Ha Jin chose to tell the story of two young lovers running off in "Too Late"; the joyous scene of camaraderie at the end of "Uncle Piao's Birthday Dinners"; and the complex motivations of the narrator of "The Fellow Townsmen," who does the right thing against his own instincts and his own best interests. I can't wait to read, well, "Waiting" and "Under the Red Flag."
