i don't want to be seen as a pretty thing;
it's the pretty things we're always breaking

war trash

ha jin

here is another of the handful of books lea got me for my birthday. i don’t claim to know much of anything about the korean war, but this book offers a fascinating insight into both that conflict, and to the recently communized (communist-ized?) chinese culture of the time.

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