6 u6 ^ Y) a1 U& K( Z) }, s 1976-ayear before the deathe Mao Zedong and the end of the CulturalRevolution.Eleven-year-old Wang Han lives in the communes of rural SouthwesternChina - a consequence of his family being forced out of major cities.Theprecocious boy lives freely,until he stumbles upon a bloody fugitive,whose fatewill inextricably be linked to his own family.Wang Xiaoshuais latest work,one ofhis finest and most accessible,is rich in quasi-autobiographical details of theperiod while capturing evocative details in a youthscoming-of-age.; L5 @# s1 A6 B( W2 t5 N