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The Bridegroom (short story collection)
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| Author | Ha Jin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short stories |
| Set&#;in | China |
| Publisher | Pantheon |
Publication date | October 3, |
| Publication place | United States |
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The Bridegroom is a collection of twelve short stories by Chinese-American author Ha Jin. The stories are set in Muji City in contemporary China, the same provincial city that served as the setting for his novel Waiting.
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[edit]"Saboteur," "The Bridegroom," and "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" were subsequently included in The Best American Short Stories series.[1]
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THE BRIDEGROOM
By Ha Jin
Pantheon, pages, $22
The new collection of short stories by National Book Award winner Ha Jin (“Waiting”) can’t help but provoke a split reaction — at least in this reader. The first is gratitude for the vivid picture the book gives of Chinese society in the era just after the Cultural Revolution, when communist ideals began to give way to capitalist experiment. The second is a feeling that Jin, National Book Award or no, is in sore need of a copy editor.
Jin-who was born in China in , left his native country in and now lives in Atlanta, where he writes in English-focuses exclusively on Chinese subject matter in his fiction. Indeed, if one didn’t know better, it would be easy to assume that “The Bridegroom” was a Chinese-language original that hasn’t had the best of treatments from its translator.
Its 12 stories, all set in the fictional city of Muji on the Shonghua River in northeast China, are marked by a gentle humor when it comes to the foibles of its characters, some not-so-gentle jabs at the political system that grinds them down, and some lapses in language that distract from the matters at hand. Teachers, nurses, factory managers, peasants, entrepreneurs, policemen and innumerable bureaucrats