On Wednesday evening, I finished reading “The Crazed” by Ha Jin.

Here is the plot synopsis thanks to Michael Ferch through Amazon.Com:
Set during the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989, The Crazed, a novel from Ha Jin, the award-winning author of the bestseller Waiting, unites a prominent Chinese university professor who suffers a brain injury (more specifically, a stroke) and Jien Wen, a favorite student and future son-in-law who becomes his caretaker. As Professor Yang rants about his earlier life, his bizarre outbursts begin to strike Jien as containing some truth and, considering the uncertain...
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