Bronze and Sunflower
Taken in by a poor family in a rural village after the death of her father, Sunflower bonds with the family's only child, Bronze, who has not spoken since being traumatized by a terrible fire.
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I'm enjoying reading books in translation. This book expanded my horizons by telling the story of Bronze and Sunflower during the cultural revolution in China. On the surface it is a happy, childhood story. If you peel back one layer, you find a darker world of enforced labor, hunger, and childhood beatings.
I didn't care for the ending. It felt inevitable but it lost some of it's wonder for me.