In the Pond

Vintage, 2001. Pages yellowing; old sticker top right of front cover.

Ha Jin's themes of personal honour in the face of political rectitude are carried forward here in his first novel, In the Pond, a close, unsentimental depiction of life in a small factory town; the manoeuvring, posturing, petty jealousies and injustices of an ordinary man who tangles with the party bosses....