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Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of overcome adversity, a memoir of a boyhood filled with spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an incredible young writer.
Da Chen was created in 1962, in the entire year of Great Starvation. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution engulfed an incredible number 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 matures to be resilient, tough, and funny, learning how to guard himself and the way to work toward his future. By the final pages, when his says his last goodbyes to his father and boards the bus to Beijing to attend college, Da Chen has become a hopeful man astonishing in his resilience and cheerful strength.
