Saboteur (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ha Jin
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Muji, China
- Principal Characters: Chiu Muguang, A police officer from Muji, Fenjin
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Justice, Teaching or teachers, Power, personal or social, Communism or communists, Prisoners, Twentieth century, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Asia or Asians, Revenge, Cruelty, Diseases, China or Chinese people
- Locales: China
The Story
“Saboteur” is told through the consciousness of Chiu Muguang, a university professor who is arrested and briefly kept in captivity, although the final paragraphs of the story are narrated from the point of view of Fenjin, Chiu's former student. In a brief epilogue, an unidentified narrator makes clear the motives for Chiu's strange behavior after his imprisonment.
As the story opens, Chiu and his new bride are having lunch on the last day of their honeymoon in the city of Muji, China. Chiu is looking forward to returning to his job in Harbin, especially...
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