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A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post, L A times, and San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the YearHa Jin’s seismically effective new novel reaches once an unblinking check out the bell jar of communist Chinese culture and a face of the everlasting compromises and deceptions of the individual condition. Once the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature in a provincial college, includes a swing, his student Jian Wan is designated to take care of him. Delicacy is required by the job, because the dutiful Jian ideas to wed his mentor’s stunning, frozen child. Just simply how much treat becomes obvious when Yang starts to rave.Are these just the outpourings of the damaged brain, or is Yang talking the truth—about his life’s function, his peers, and his family?