The Crazed
Author: Ha Jin
Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan – who is also engaged to Yang’s daughter – to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor begins to rave, pleading with invisible tormentors and denouncing his family…,,Are these just manifestations of illness, or is Yang spewing up the truth? In a China conv….Read More
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