Set in 1951-53, *War Trash* takes the form of the memoir of Yu Yuan, a young Chinese army officer, one of a corps of "volunteers" sent by Mao to help shore up the Communist side in Korea. When Yu is...

The demands of human longing contend with the weight of centuries of custom in acclaimed author Ha Jin’s *Waiting*, a novel of unexpected richness and universal resonance. Every summer, Lin Kong, a...