Contents

Cover

Also by Ha Jin

Title Page

Copyright

Prelude

Chapter 1: Origins

Chapter 2: Away from Home

Chapter 3: Back in His Hometown

Chapter 4: Leaving Sichuan

Chapter 5: Dissipation

Chapter 6: Marriage

Chapter 7: Married Life

Chapter 8: In the Capital

Chapter 9: Away from the Capital

Chapter 10: In the North

Chapter 11: In the South

Chapter 12: Moving to the Lu Region

Chapter 13: Women

Chapter 14: In the Capital Again

Chapter 15: Political Involvement

Chapter 16: The Meeting of Two Stars

Chapter 17: Life in Transition

Chapter 18: On the Road Again

Chapter 19: New Marriage

Chapter 20: On the Northeastern Frontier

Chapter 21: Moving to the South

Chapter 22: An Unexpected Guest

Chapter 23: Escaping from the Rebels

Chapter 24: Imprisonment

Chapter 25: Disillusion and the End

Chapter 26: Afterword

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

About the Author