Volume 47, Number 5 · March 23, 2000
East Is West
By Ian Buruma
A Gesture Life
by Chang-rae Lee
Riverhead, 356 pp., $23.95
Waiting
by Ha Jin
Pantheon, 308 pp., $24.00
Chang-rae Lee has an extraordinary talent for describing violence. Here is his account of the gang rape and murder of a Korean sex slave ('comfort woman') in a Japanese army camp during World War II:
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