The key to Jin's fiction is the molding together of real people and real events, weaving all the bits and pieces into the kind of seamless fictional whole that elevates story into literature.
把許多個真人實事捏塑在一起，改名換姓，東接西連，讓各式各樣的細節合情合理編織進小說裡，故事上升為文學，這成了哈金小說的基調。