Author(s): Andre Leblanc
No. of Pages: 40 pages
Date Published: 01 Jun 2014
Publisher: Wilkins Farago
Format: Hardback | 40 pages
Dimensions: 241.3 x 302.26 x 7.62mm | 453.59g
Language: English
Publication City/Country: Melbourne, Australia
Edition:
Illustrations: ill.

This stirring and beautiful picture book relates the moving and inspiring story of a gifted young girl's passion for the piano in a time of historic turmoil.

During China's Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), a young girl is taken from her family and sent to a far-off labour camp. Forbidden to play the piano, she nevertheless finds a way of smuggling hand-written music into the camp and sneaking away at night to practice a piano in a secret location.

Then, one night, she is caught...

Inspired by the amazing true story of the international concert pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, Andre Leblanc and Barroux's acclaimed picture book from France poetically relates an extraordinary story of perseverance set against a cataclysmic period of history which is, to this day, still shrouded in mystery.