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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Jan 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $16.00
Pages: 336
At its best, this has some of the pacing and texture of a skillfully constructed mystery....But the payoff is a letdown: it feels more like a general statement about China's recent history than the result of its characters' fateful interactions. Not one of Ha Jin's better efforts. Still, readers who've admired his later fiction won't want to miss it.