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WreckageBy Ha JinHanging Loose PressCopyright © 2001 Ha Jin. All rights reserved.ISBN: 1-882413-98-9Chapter One    Yu the Great: a Legend Soon the angry gods turned the Yellow Valley into a swamp, where water and reeds swelled toward the fumy sky, serpents and crocodiles devouring people. Yu's father stole some Divine Loam. With it he stemmed the flood, but the Fire God wrapped him in flames the water broke loose again. Yu had to continue the struggle. Hundreds of miles up, in the grasslands, the river flowed clear and peaceful. But entering the ocherous plain it roared and rolled, poured silt into the valley, and drowned our crops and homes year after year. Yu set out to survey the river. He took a sled on mud, a boat on water, a wagon on land, and trudged up mountains with a spiked cane. He divided the land into nine states, linked them with solid roads, dug waterways along the valley, dammed the marshes that had overflowed. Still the river could not be tamed. It pranced around, shattering dikes. For eight years Yu lived among the laborers and never returned home although three times he passed his hovel and heard his c

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Author

Jin, Ha, Ha Jin

Publisher

HANGING LOOSE PRESS

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781882413973

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Poetry

Rating

3.68 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14