(image from Banned Books Week website)
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read starts today through October 4th. This annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.
From the ALA website:
BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered [...]
In Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Siji, our narrator, who remains nameless, and his best friend Luo are send to the mountains to work and be re-educated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Both come from educated, well off families who are now considered enemies of the state. The two boys now live [...]
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