Description
A young literature graduate student, Jian, moves through the shifting social currents of provincial life as his private desires and public obligations begin to tangle. As his relationship with an aging mentor—who is also poised to become his future father-in-law—deepens, both men confront the limits of loyalty, the weight of authority, and the compromises that love can demand. Set against the pressures of a rapidly changing China, the novel explores how dignity and duty are tested when history presses close to the heart. With Ha Jin’s spare, emotionally exact prose, this intimate story turns personal bonds into a lens on moral survival, memory, and the quiet costs of getting by.
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paperback
Vintage
Published Jan 6, 2004
336 pages
ISBN: 9780375714115
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First Published
2002
Language
eng
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