![]() About a dozen young women, representing the local hotels, held up placards which displayed the daily prices and words as large as a palm, like free meals, air-conditioning, and on the river. Food and fruit vendors were crying for customers in lazy voices. Hundreds of people were rushing around to get on the platform or to catch buses to downtown. A few flies kept buzzingĪbove the couple’s lunch. Now and again they would steal a glance at Mr. To his right, at another table, two railroad policemen were drinking tea and laughing it seemed that the stout, middle-aged man was telling a joke to his young comrade, who was tall and of athletic build. As he was chewing, a few crinkles appeared on his thin jaw. He picked up a slice of streaky pork and put it into his mouth. “Let’s eat,” he said to her, and broke the connected ends of the chopsticks. ![]() ![]() On the table between them were two bottles of soda spewing out brown foam and two paper boxes of rice and sautéed cucumber and pork. Chiu and his bride were having lunch in the square before Muji Train Station. The Woman from New York 171 After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town 184 The Bridegroom 91 An Entrepreneur’s Story 116 Flame 126 A Bad Joke 142 An Official Reply In the Kindergarten 43 A Tiger-Fighter Is Hard to Find 54 Broken ChinaóSocial life and customsó1976óFiction. Contents: SaboteuróFlameóIn the kindergartenóA tiger- ghter is hard to ndóBrokenóThe bridegroomóAn entrepreneurís storyó AliveóA bad jokeóAn of cial replyóThe woman from New YorkóAfter Cowboy Chicken came to town. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jin, Ha, 1956ñ The bridegroom : stories / Ha Jin. The stories in this collection have been previously published, sometimes in slightly different form, in the following: ìSaboteurî has appeared in The Antioch Review republished in The Best American Short Stories (1997) ï ìAliveî in AGNI ï ìIn the Kindergartenî in Five Points republished in The Best American Short Stories (1999) ï ìA Tiger-Fighter Is Hard to Findî in The Oxford American ï ìBrokenî in Columbia ï ìThe Bridegroomî in Harperís republished in The Best American Short Stories (2000) ï ìAn Entrepreneurís Storyî in Witness ï ìFlameî in Missouri Review ï ìA Bad Jokeî in Manoa ï ìAn Of cial Replyî in Shenandoah ï ìThe Woman from New Yorkî in The Boston Book Review ï ìAfter Cowboy Chicken Came to Townî in TriQuarterly. Pantheon Books is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Copyright © 2000 by Ha Jin All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
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