Leaving Point - Hardcover

Vander Els, Betty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374343764 ISBN 13: 9780374343767

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987

Synopsis

Home from boarding school to spend Christmas with their missionary parents, fourteen-year-old Ruth and her brothers find that the Communist Revolution has brought about many changes and new restrictions that complicate Ruth's growing friendship with a young Chinese girl who may not be what she seems. Sequel to "The Bomber's Moon."In a tale set against the turmoil of post-liberation China, Ruth's holiday visit to her missionary parents is threatened by escalting unrest and police restrictions, a situation that threatens Ruth's growing friendship with Chuin-mei, a young Chinese girl

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

This sequel to Vander Els's Bomber's Moon relates the events that occur while Ruth, now 14, waits with her family for official permission to leave postliberation China. Her parents' mission is crowded with other families anxious to leave, and their nervousness builds as anti-Western sentiment increases around them. Amid these volatile, confusing circumstances, Ruth forges a tenuous friendship with an ardent revolutionarya young woman not much older than herselfand finds that the bonds of friendship transcend political ideology. Ruth's story provides an authentic and gripping look at China's often violent struggle to revolutionize and modernize its society. The author does not resort to reductive or one-sided analysis; instead, the novel's events reflect the range of moral complexities and ambiguities attending such a process. The pulls and tugs of family life are portrayed with equal insight, and the result is an unusually rich, provocative and satisfying historical novel. Ages 12-up.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0374343764
• ISBN 13: 9780374343767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 211