Showing A Hundred Flowers: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-03 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: St Martins Griffin China. 1957 Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society:. Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend Many. intellectuals fear it is only a trick. and Kai Yings husband. Sheng. a teacher. has promised not to jeopardize their safety or that of their young son. Tao. But one July morning. just before his sixth birthday. Tao watches helplessly as Sheng is dragged away for writing a letter criticizing the Communist Party and sent to a labour camp for re-education. A year later. still missing his father desperately. Tao climbs to the top of the hundred-year-old kapok tree in front of their home. wanting to see the mountain peaks in the distance. But Tao slips and tumbles thirty feet to the courtyard below. badly breaking his leg. As Kai Ying struggles to hol...