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LEADER: 02859cam 2200529Ia 4500
001 ocn645273345
003 OCoLC
005 20160131131457.0
008 100630r20102009nyu 000 f eng d
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090 $aPL2965.G36$bY5613 2010
100 1 $aWang, Gang.
240 10 $aYing ge li shi.$lEnglish
245 10 $aEnglish /$cWang Gang ; translated from the Chinese by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Books,$c2010, c2009.
300 $a313 p. ;$c20 cm.
500 $a"Originally published in Chinese as Ying ge li shi by People's Literature Publishing House, Beijing"--T.p. verso.
520 0 $aDuring the darkest days of the Cultural Revolution, a twelve-year-old boy named Love Liu wonders what life is like beyond the region of Xinjiang in China's remote northwest. Here, conformity is valued above all else, and suspicion governs every exchange among neighbors, classmates, and even friends. Into this stifling atmosphere comes a tall, clean-shaven teacher from Shanghai, with an elegant gray wool jacket and an English dictionary tucked under his arm. With the dictionary at his disposal, Love Liu throws himself into learning English, and a whole new world opens up for him. But in an atmosphere of accusation and recrimination, one in which the teacher is deemed morally suspect and mere innuendo can cost someone his life, Love Liu's ideals face a test more challenging than any he'll meet in the classroom. A major bestseller in China, with rights sold around the world, English is a transcendent novel about a boy's self-discovery, a country's shame, and the transporting power of language.
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$yCultural Revolution, 1966-1976$vFiction.
611 27 $aCultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01352662
651 7 $aChina.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01206073
648 7 $a1966 - 1976$2fast
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 $aMerz, Martin.
700 1 $aPan, Jane Weizhen.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0915/2009280581-d.html
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN PMR - 49 OTHER HOLDINGS