Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party For the next four years, Ling will suffer more horrors than many people face in a lifetime.Nine-year-old Ling has a very happy life. In an atmosphere of increasing mistrust and hatred, Ling fears
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| Title | : | Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.77 (615 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312581491 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2009-09-29 |
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The summer of 1972, before I turned nine, danger began knocking on doors all over China.Nine-year-old Ling has a very happy life. Her parents are both dedicated surgeons at the best hospital in Wuhan, and her father teaches her English as they listen to Voice of America every evening on the radio. But when one of Mao's political officers moves into a room in their apartment, Ling begins to witness the gradual disintegration of her world. In an atmosphere of increasing mistrust and hatred, Ling fears for the safety of her neighbors, and soon, for herself and her family. For the next four years, Ling will suffer more horrors than many people face in a lifetime. Will she be able to grow and blossom under the oppressive rule of Chairman Mao? Or will fighting to survive destroy her spiritand end her life?Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Editorial : From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Picture book and cookbook author Compestine (The Real Story of Stone Soup) turns to 1972 China as the setting for her first YA novel. Eight-year-old Ling, the spunky daughter of two doctors, lives in Wuhan, China; dreamy and idealistic, she often describes her world in metaphor (about her neighbor, Ling notes, Mrs. Wong was fragrant and warm like a red peony, which always welcomed visitors). But the lives of Ling and her family are disrupted when Comrade Li, an officer of the Communist Party, moves into their apartment. Difficulties mount as friends and neighbors disappear, Ling's father is arrested and she endures vicious tormenting at school because of her bourgeois background (At times I wished my family was poor and my parents worked on a vegetable farm so I could have friends. But if my parents worked on a farm, who would treat their patients?). Although her father has been jailed, her family starved and their books burned, Ling
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