Freedom Swimmer

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781338656145

<B>A powerful story of friendship, bravery, and a desperate bid for freedom, inspired by true events.</B><P></P><P>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.</P><P>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 labor 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.</P><P>But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom.</P>