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The story is narrated by Love Liu, a 12-year-old Han Chinese boy whose intellectual parents were effectively exiled to remote Ürümqi. His father is an architect often away working near hydrogen bomb testing sites, while his mother is a busy structural designer planning local air-raid bomb shelters.

In this bleak, industrial environment, life is heavily policed by Communist Party protocols, conformity is mandatory, and everyday exchanges are governed by fear and paranoia.
The stagnant atmosphere of Love Liu's school is entirely upended by the arrival of a new English teacher from Shanghai, nicknamed Second Prize Wang.

Unlike the local adults, Second Prize Wang is a refined, elegantly dressed gentleman who wears cologne, carries himself with Western manners, and harbors a deep love for literature. Most importantly, he possesses a thick, beautifully bound English dictionary with a navy blue cover.

To Love Liu and his eccentric classmates—the bright but deeply troubled Sunrise Huang and the rowdy, impoverished Garbage Li—this dictionary becomes a sacred object. Love Liu becomes completely obsessed with it, viewing the English language as a gateway to a hidden, beautiful, and forbidden world. He begins sneaking around, looking up words like "love," "compassion," and "mercy"—concepts that have been utterly scrubbed from his harsh, everyday life under Chairman Mao’s regime.

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3.813.0372.B.U

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Jakarta : PT Gramedia., 2013

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Indonesia

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3.813.0372.B.U

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Fiksi Indonesia

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