Freedom Swimmer

Title: Freedom Swimmer
Author: Chim, Wai
ISBN: 9781338656138
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2021
Binding: Book
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher

YA 1414680

Publisher Description:
A powerful story of friendship, bravery, and a desperate bid for freedom, inspired by true events.

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 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.

But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom.