Things That Must Not Be Forgotten : A Childhood in Wartime China
240pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Cream endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. Winner of the Pacific Rim Book Prize in 2000. which balances the innocent insight of childhood against the grim machinations of war, self-preservation against brutal authority, love of family against love of country.
