
National Book Award-winner Ha Jin's arresting debut novel , In the Pond , is a darkly funny portrait of an amateur calligrapher who wields his delicate artist's brush as a weapon against the powerful party bureaucrats who rule his provincial Chinese town. Shao Bin is a downtrodden...


Shao Bin is a factory fitter in a small Chinese town a poor and unconnected man with a young wife and a small child but also an accomplished artist and calligrapher. He's worked at the plant for six years so feels that this time his family will get an appartment in Worker's...



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