NEW YORK (AP) -- Ha Jin's ``War Trash,'' a novel about Chinese POWs under American captivity during the Korean War, has won the PEN/Faulkner prize for best fiction by an American author. In announcing ...

One of the cliches you hear about the Korean War in the early 1950s is that it is the "forgotten war." I hardly think it is that, since the Korean peninsula a half century later remains one of the ...

The "war trash" of this hypnotic novel are Chinese soldiers who were taken prisoner by U.N. forces -- mainly American -- during the Korean War. Written in the modest, uninflected prose of a soldier's ...