Gou’er Drifting from a Boat
by Huang Beijia
Description
Gou’er Drifting from a Boat is a novel about growth. In the small neighborhood with the name “The Yard of Phoenix Tree”, a group of children whose parents are middle school teachers and quite an ordinary girl become good friends and they try all the games under the sun. The reader may join the group, among which there is the clever Xiao’ai, the learned Fang Mingliang, the noble Bunny, the naughty Xiao Shan and Xiao Shui, the fairy-like Little Sister and the hero Gou’er, the very ordinary girl who has high aspiration but bad fortune. With this group the reader may go scooping for fish with a net, catching cicadas with something sticky, secretly taking books out of school libraries, reading the comic strips A Dream of Red Mansions without parents’ permission, writing letters directly to the Great Leader Mao Zedong, looking small before a beautiful coryphée, feeling nervous at the bodily changes at teenage, tasting the vague love between teenagers and lots of other things. Reading the novel is like viewing an ancient film, offering the reader not only great fun and joy but also melancholy.
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Vietnamese rights sold.
Author Biography
Huang Beijia was born in June 1955 in Rugao County, Jiangsu Province. In 1977 she entered Beijing University to study Chinese. She is now a writer of Jiangsu Writers Association. Her publication has mounted to over 4 million Chinese characters, among which half a million are for children. Her novels for children are Boat, Small Boat, A Song for Mother, When Reed Catkins Are Flying, A Sea Far Away. Two children’s TV films were adapted from her novels and won international awards. Some of her novels and stories have been translated into french ,Japanese , Russian and Korean. She has won several excellent children’s literature awards in Jiangsu and Shanghai. Her novel I’ll Be a Good Girl won a “Five ‘One’ Project Award” issued by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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- Publisher Phoenix Books Ltd
- Orginal LanguageChinese complex
- ISBN/Identifier 9787534635205
- ReadershipTeenage/Young Adult
- Publish StatusPublished
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