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In the amazing Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his famous novel Waiting, an accumulation of humorous and profoundly moving stories of modern China that are as warm and human because they are shocking, disturbing, and delightful.In the title tale, the top of security in a manufacturer is surprised, first once the hansomest employee on the ground suggests marriage to his comfortable adopted child, and again when his new son-in-law is charged for the "crime" of homosexuality. In "After Cowboy Chicken Found Town," the employees at an American-style junk food business get an entertaining crash-course in advertising, deep-frying, and that irritating capitalist dictum, "the client is definitely right."Ha Jin has triumphed again together with his memorable storytelling within The Lick.