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F Ho
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HarperCollins (1990), Edition: 1st, 256 pages
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After social rebels convince the headman of a small village in northern Thailand to resist the land rent, his seventeen-year-old daughter Jinda finds herself caught up in the student uprising in Bangkok.
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Young adult book, whose lead character, Jinda, lives in a farming community in N Thailand. In the 70s, this was an area of deprivation, the villagers in thrall to greedy landlords who took half the rice harvest. With sickness, malnutrition and oppression a fact of life, the locals are - slowly-
Because of the genre, the characters are pretty 2 dimensional - the good and the bad. But still quite informative on the political climate of the time, and the disparity between the well-off South and impoverished north.
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motivated into action by a group of students who come to experience their life and spread the message of fighting back. But nothing has an easy answer...Because of the genre, the characters are pretty 2 dimensional - the good and the bad. But still quite informative on the political climate of the time, and the disparity between the well-off South and impoverished north.
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256