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444 pages • first pub 2003 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 0670040247
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Australia
Edition Pub Date: 25 November 2003
Description
In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men...
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444 pages • first pub 2003 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 0670040247
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Australia
Edition Pub Date: 25 November 2003
Description
In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men...