Colors of the Mountain: A Memoir-Fast Shipping

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Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir ofa boyhood full of spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazingyoung writer.

Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao Zedong’sCultural Revolution engulfed millions of Chinese citizens, and the Red Guard enforcedMao’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, thefamily of eight left without a breadwinner. Despite this background of poverty anddanger, and Da Chen grows up to be resilient, tough, and funny, learning how to defendhimself and how to work toward his future. By the final pages, when his says hislast goodbyes to his father and boards the bus to Beijing to attend college, Da Chenhas become a hopeful manastonishing in his resilience and cheerful strength.