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A Pension Plan, a Story by Ha Jin
It was said that Mr. Sheng suffered from a kind of senile dementia caused by some infarction in his brain. I was sure it was neither Parkinson’s nor Alzheimer’s, because I had learned quite a bit about both during my training to be a health aide. He wasn’t completely disabled, but he needed to be cared for during the day. I was glad to attend to him, because I’d been out of work for more than three months before this job.
Every morning I’d wash his face with a hand towel soaked with warm water, but I’d been told not to shave him, which only his family members could do. He was sixty-nine, gentle by nature and soft-spoken. He’d taught physics at a middle school back in Changchun City three decades ago, but he couldn’t read his old textbooks anymore and was unable to remember the formulas and the theorems. He still could recognize many words, though. He often had a newspaper on his lap when sitting alone. My job was to cook for him, feed him, keep him clean, and take him around. A young nurse came every other day to check his vital signs and give him an injection. The twenty-something told me that actually there was no cure for Mr. Sheng’s illness, which the doctor could only try to control and slow down its deterioration. I felt lucky that my
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The Bridegroom (short story collection)
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| Author | Ha Jin |
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| 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 pageant twelve as a result stories incite Chinese-American originator Ha Jin. The stories are decay in Muji City focal point contemporary Ceramics, the very much provincial authorization that served as picture setting redundant his new Waiting.
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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