Freedom Swimmer
Published on 24. August 2016
272 pages
978-1-952534-76-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. They're not used to hard labour and village life. 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.
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Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Copyright
- Title page
- Dedication
- A note about phonetics
- Map
- Prologue
- Part I: Up to the mountains and down to the villages
- Chapter 1: Ming
- Chapter 2: Ming
- Chapter 3: Ming
- Chapter 4: Ming
- Chapter 5: Ming
- Chapter 6: Ming
- Part II: Destroy the four olds, support the four news
- Chapter 7: Li
- Chapter 8: Li
- Chapter 9: Li
- Chapter 10: Li
- Part III: To rebel is justified
- Chapter 11: Ming
- Chapter 12: Li
- Chapter 13: Ming
- Chapter 14: Li
- Chapter 15: Ming
- Chapter 16: Li
- Chapter 17: Ming
- Chapter 18: Ming-1973
- Epilogue
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
