Monday, April 07, 2008

The House Behind A Weeping Cherry


"The House Behind A Weeping Cherry," written by Ha Jin, an award winning Chinese immigrant writer, and published by The New Yorker on April 7, is yet another immigrant experience story, set in Flushing, Queens, one of the outer boroughs that has nothing to do with Sex And The City, in fact it's the opposite of Sex And The City, where nothing is glamorous and nobody is self-consciously reflective. The story takes place in a whore house in Flushing and centers on a young man who ultimately falls in love with one of the three prostitutes in the house. In the end, the couple only survives the City by running away from it. It's not one of my favorites, but it does put Flushing in The New Yorker, so it is special, at least to me, a long time Flushing resident.
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6 comments:

  1. Unknown10:53 PM

    I am looking forward to read your "Sex and the Flushing", when would you write your own

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  2. Sidney Sweet5:33 AM

    I've come to admire Ha Jin for some time because he writes effectively in [simple] English and he won the PEN and National Book Awards. I have several of his novels but never get to finish reading any of them. I'm a pathetic reader of novels.

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  3. laichungleung5:10 PM

    Never buy a book you don't intend to or can't finish. It's a waste of natural resources, a waste of your living space and in the end a reminder of how pathetic you are.

    Borrow from the library.

    Owning books don't make you an intellectual, reading them may.

    From the hopelessly illiterate.

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  4. Sidney Sweet9:28 PM

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  5. Sidney Sweet9:31 PM

    I completely agree. But the bad thing is I've bought a houseload of books already.

    Thanks a lot for your advice. I really appreciate it.

    My aspiration of becoming a learned man has landed me in plenty of troubles. It's eaten up lots of our living space, too.

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  6. Unknown9:53 PM

    donate your books to the local university library or your kids' school, or more meaningful if you are willing to pay for the expensive postage, donate to U. of Tibet

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