Description

At the same time a coming-of-age tale and a heart-rending love story, Wild Cinnamon examines the disastrous connection with the Cultural Revolution, which described Anchee Min’s childhood. The stunning, iron-willed Wild Cinnamon is just in elementary-school when she's designated from the Red Guards for her “foreign-coloured eyes.” Her classmate Walnut can also be a goal of persecution. The book chronicles both girls’ growing in Shanghai in the late-1960s and early 1970s, when Chairman Mao dominated definitely and his supporters used arms in his title. Wild Cinnamon matures to be always a design Maoist, but her love for a guy quickly spots her within an untenable place — and fundamentally in human threat.