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Ocean of Words
Ha Jin

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megcampbell3, March 7, 2008

The stories that comprise "Ocean of Words" seem to make all sorts of interesting things appear from below the still surface of the pond that contains them; what at first glance seem to be meditations on one facet of one plain, round stone are in fact studies of what is born in the muck and how it ascends toward the light differently than what is born right next to it. The differences in these stories are as various as the obvious and unapparent differences between siblings. Who would have thought, side-by-side on the Russian-Chinese border, early 1970’s, thinking Communist thoughts, so much could be so funny. Damn if Ha Jin can't make us laugh, over and over again, breaking the surface (from below) of the very pond these stories bloom within and giving us a good splashing.

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