商品簡介
This "gripping and poignant memoir" (New YorkTimes Book Review) draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communistpower from the first days of "Liberation" in1949 through the post-Mao era. The son of a professional family, Kang Zhengguo is a freespirit, drawn to literature. In Mao's China, these innocuous circumstances expose him at age twenty to a fierce struggle session, expulsion from university, and a four-year term of hard labor. So begins his long stay in the prison-camp system. He finally escapes theChinese gulag by forfeiting his identity: at age twenty-eight he is adopted by an aging bachelor in a peasant village, which enables him to start a new life.
