(Fiction. Asian Studies. Winner of the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction for his story collection OCEAN OF WORDS, and of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction for UNDER THE RED FLAG, Ha Jin is a writer of stark power, simple beauty and poignant irony. IN THE POND is a close, unsentimental depiction of life in a small faCtory town; the manuevering, posturing, petty jealousies and injustices of an ordinary man, Shao Bin, who tangles with the party bosses. In this first novel, as in his short fiction,

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