num_pages: 368
description: War Trash is the unforgettable story of Yu Yuan, a young Chinese army officer sent by Mao with a corps of 'volunteers' to help shore up the Communist side in Korea. When the Americans capture Yu, his command of English propels him into the role of unofficial interpreter in the psychological warfare that defines the POW camp. Desperate to return to his beloved fiancée and widowed mother, Yu is trapped by both barbed wire and politics...
language: English
title: War Trash
titlecomplete: War Trash
genres: China, Asian Literature, Historical, Asia, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 3872
places: Korea
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: 亞洲週刊中文十大好書
publisher: Penguin