Author of the Sounds of The River

This book, Sounds of the River, is about friendships, prejudice, familial love and academic striving, and of one man’s escape from hunger, poverty and ignorance.

Da Chen leaves his village for University in Beijing to learn English and all other Westernised things. He competes with every other student with family of high status to win a chance to study in the US – a chance that rests in the shrewd and corrupt hands of all-powerful professors.

Da Chen engages the reader of "Sounds of the River" with his candid and lyrical narration of the human comedy that surrounds this classically comedic tale of a country bumpkin trying to make it in the big city. His story reflect very much on the state of the post-Mao China, and the people’s lives.

By: Wee Wen ChingPresbyterian High School,

Singapore

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