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Ha Jin was born in 1956 in Liaoning, China, and spent six years serving in the People's Liberation Army. He came to the United States in 1985, earned a Ph.D at Brandeis University, and now teaches at Emory University.
Though art and politics figure in the action, In the Pond is first and foremost a comedy - naughty, lusty, raucously entertaining. Ha Jin's language echoes working-class Chinese at its rough, bawdy best New York Times Book Review 20020530 Fascinating...spare and taut... A fable about morality and power Chicago Tribune 20020530 Ha Jin captures the particularities of life in China, yet we recognise his characters intimately. The 'otherness' of this most foreign nation falls away as one vividly drawn human after another takes flesh on the page Boston Globe Fascinating, refreshing and uncommonly subtle: Ha Jin has made China available to a new world and a world of new readers Kirkus Reviews A compelling exploration of the terrain that is the human heart... an all too rare reminder of the reasons why someone might feel so strongly about a book New York Times
