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176 pp.
| Farrar/Kroupa
| March, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-0-374-39922-1$16.00
(3)
YA
In tempered and graceful prose, Li recounts her life in Mao's China, from the era of the Great Leap Forward through the Cultural Revolution, ending with her departure in her mid-twenties in 1980 to study in the United States. Sustaining her throughout is her passion for books, instilled by her father and seeing her through the worst excesses of the Red Guards. Timeline. Glos.