TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chim,Wai
TI  - Freedom swimmer
SN  - 9781760113414
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Boys
KW  - China
KW  - Male friendship
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Hong Kong (China)
KW  - History
KW  - Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
KW  - Social conditions
N2  - 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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