Freedom swimmer /
Chim, Wai,
Freedom swimmer / Wai Chim. - First US edition. - 236 pages ; 22 cm
"Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals...But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over evening swims and shared dreams. But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom"--
9781338656138 1338656139
Liberty--Fiction.
Villages--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Swimming--Fiction.
Communism--China--Fiction.
China--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Novels.
Freedom swimmer / Wai Chim. - First US edition. - 236 pages ; 22 cm
"Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals...But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over evening swims and shared dreams. But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom"--
9781338656138 1338656139
Liberty--Fiction.
Villages--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Swimming--Fiction.
Communism--China--Fiction.
China--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Novels.