Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

a novel

by

Hardcover, 256 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2007 by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR).

ISBN:
978-0-8050-8207-4
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OCLC Number:
77333486

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4 stars (1 review)

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

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4 stars

From the perspective of the young daughter of two doctors, this explores the changes of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the 70s after a political officer moves into their apartment.

Subjects

  • Social Issues - Emotions & Feelings
  • Social Issues - Values
  • Social Issues - Violence
  • Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
  • Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Values
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • China
  • Family life
  • Fiction
  • Persecution
  • Physicians
  • Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)

Places

  • China