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Nanjing Requiem (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print)) Library Binding ? Large Print, February 1, 2012 ISBN 9781611733143 Lisa 5.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking but gripping true story Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2016 Verified Purchase Heartbreaking but gripping true story of WW2. Relevant for scholars of American and Chinese history alike, as well as generally being a good read for anyone interested in the complex relationship between the two countries on a more person-to-person level, or generally interested in learning more about the tragedies of WW2. If you liked Schindler's List, you will like this novel. The Boat Rocker (Center Point Large Print) Library Binding ? Large Print, March 1, 2017 by Ha Jin ISBN 9781683242932 Tony Parsons 5.0 out of 5 stars A very awesome book cover Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2016 2005, NYC. Coming to the US Feng Danlin (Chinese) meets up with his wife. Yan Haili serves him divorce papers leaves him high/dry. Feng (expatriate, BA journalism, Jilin U) learns to adapt to the city gets a job as a global news agency online news reporter. Feng later met Katie (NYU asst. professor, PhD, Sociology). Haili (aka aurora borealis) published an article in the North American Tribune. Where is Feng?s future headed. PS was 1 of my many undergrad degrees. I didn?t do well on my GRE thank God I had a high GPA, which got me into to 2 graduate schools. I did not receive any type of compensation for reading reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review. Only an honest one. A very awesome book cover, great font writing style. A very well written Chinese novel book. It was very easy for me to read/follow from start/finish never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns a great set of unique characters to keep track of. This could also make another great Chinese movie, or better yet a mini TV series. There is no doubt in my mind this is a very easy rating of 5 stars. Thank you for the free Goodreads; MakingConnections; Pantheon Books; Alfred A. Knopf (Borzoi Books); UCP; paperback book Tony Parsons MSW (Washburn) A Map of Betrayal Library Binding ? Large Print, February 1, 2015 by Ha Jin ISBN 9781628994582 Nancy Brisson 5.0 out of 5 stars What If You Found Out Your Dad Was a Foreign Spy? Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2015 Verified Purchase It?s difficult to believe that you are reading fiction when you read A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin. You may also entertain the preconceived notion that you find foreign books boring or dense with historical references you will not understand. You will not need to understand Chinese history to be fascinated by this story, although you may learn some things about China. This author has classified this story as a work of fiction but my gut keeps saying that ?only the names have been changed?. There is no reason to believe that my gut is talented at perception: this willingness to ?suspend my disbelief? is most likely due to the author?s skills at storytelling. Ha Jin chooses Lilian Shang to be our narrator. She has in her possession the diaries left by her father. She already knows that her Dad, called Weimin in China but Gary Shang in the US, translator for the CIA in Washington, DC, was actually a Chinese spy. He was exposed and arrested just as he was considering retirement. Lilian has all the articles from the newspapers about his trial. She knows he was found guilty and sent to prison. As a child Lilian did not ever see any signs that her father was a spy. Her Mom, Nellie, an American, also did not have any knowledge of her husband?s covert activities, although Gary betrays Nellie in another sense. Lilian learns, among other things, that her father has another wife in China; a wife he is never able to see. He has children he knows nothing about and grandchildren. The story does not show us a cold-blooded spy who hated the country he was embedded in or even a man who came to betray his native China. Gary Shang is full of complex emotions about the wife he left behind. He is led to believe that she is being taken care of financially due to the risks he takes as a spy. He is led to believe that he is some kind of national hero, although his work is known only to those in power. When Lilian goes to China to find her father?s other family, her relatives, and to teach at a university in Beijing, she learns how China really treated her Dad?s first wife and her Dad, who betrayed his adopted country, America, but never the country of his birth. I have always been ?gobsmacked? by Mao and his Cultural Revolution. He just tipped China like a chessboard and tossed all of the pieces around. Except that China is a giant chessboard with millions of people. Mao took scholars and made them work the farms and he put the farmers in charge of local governments. Talk about redistribution! As you can imagine, if you don?t already know, havoc and misery ensued. This Cultural Revolution may not have hit Gary Shang, he only read about it in the press, but it certainly affected his family. If you think Gary Shang had the best of both worlds until he was arrested you would be wrong. His diaries reveal his loneliness and his guilt. Ha Jin has given us a new take on a spy story and still in the back of my mind I feel that this could easily be a true story masquerading as fiction. The author gets to make that call, however, and if there had been a real spy in America like Gary Shang he would be known to all of us, although by another name. Once again this is nothing like the Bourne books or 007 or stories full of action and modern spycraft. The way Gary Shang was a spy required a loyalty and a quiet dedication that is difficult to see as heroic under the circumstances, but that surely was of great value to his beloved China. It was a life that involved periods of great internal struggle for Gary Shang and one that might prove impossible for today?s citizens who are addicted to instant gratification and acknowledgment. Trudging silently along, with only the occasional desire to revolt against the machine, is hardly our style. This is a book of subtle understandings. Ha Jin is an author who is always on my wish list.