By Ha Jin
ISBN-10: 0820319392
ISBN-13: 9780820319391
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for brief fiction, lower than the pink Flag positive factors twelve tales which occur in the course of China's Cultural Revolution--stories which exhibit the earnestness and grandeur of human folly and, in a bigger feel, shape an ethical heritage of a time and a spot.
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The black boar appeared to know its own physical inferiority and tried resorting to its teeth. With its mouth open, it snapped at the white boar, which couldn't move fast enough to avoid every attack. Yet the white boar was so large it stood there like a bridge pier. Liao worried. Obviously his boar had no chance of winning the fight. While he was figuring how to invent an excuse for withdrawing his force from the battle, the black boar stepped aside; then, approaching the white boar slowly, all of a sudden 38 • Under the Red Flag it jumped into the air with its front legs upwards.
The two bodies turned tense as if having shed their fat. The pigs were circling around and around rather slowly; each wanted to throw the other down, but neither was able to make it. Their columnar hind feet sank into the earth. Suddenly the black boar passed water. A thick line of greenish liquid gushed out and fell on the ground. Liao's heart shuddered, because he realized his boar couldn't match the white beast in strength. He was right; in a few seconds the black boar began retreating, two deep grooves emerging under its hind feet.
She never stopped cursing. "All your ancestors will go to hell. Sons of asses . . I'll tell your parents. Your houses will be struck by thunderbolts! You'll die without a son . . " Her curses only incensed the men. Bing rolled one end of her woolen scarf into a ball and thrust it into her mouth. Instantly she stopped making noises. Then Sang produced some ropes and tied her hands to the legs of the dining table. Meanwhile Wei and Nan did as they were told by Ming, binding her feet to the beam that formed the edge of the bed.
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