War Trash

Ha Jin · 2004 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Yu Yuan, a Chinese volunteer officer captured in Korea in 1951, narrates in old age his years in the United Nations prisoner camps on Koje and Cheju islands. Inside the wire the Nationalist and Communist prisoners fight for the loyalty of the rest; a fictional memoir by a Chinese author writing in English in the United States.

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