Colors of the Mountain A Memoir

Name: Colors of the Mountain A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780385720601

ISBN-10: 0385720602

ISBN-13: 9780385720601

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Da Chen

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Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer. Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution engulfed millions of Chinese citizens, and the Red Guard enforced Mao's brutal communist regime. Chen’s family belonged to the despised landlord class, and his father and grandfather were routinely beaten and sent to labor camps, the family of eight left without a breadwinner. Despite this background of poverty and danger, and Da Chen grows up to be resilient, tough, and funny, learning how to defend himself and how to…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.17" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Da Chen is the author of Colours of the Mountain and China's Son. An accomplished flautist and brush calligrapher, he lives with his wife and two children in New York's Hudson Valley.