The Boy Ximi

Ximi is a shy young boy from the countryside. A female graduate from the city of Suzhou was sent to live in Ximi’s village in the late 1960s. This beautiful young woman, with her pure and gentle character and spirit, guides Ximi, formerly an obstinate and unruly country boy, into a new period of growth. With detailed description of subtle emotion, this is an elegant book about a boy’s growth of the soul. The book describes the peacefulness of the village, the quiet wheat fields, the spinning windmills, boats on a river, pigeons of different colors, the snow-white fluffy ends of reeds, and smoke curling upwards.

Awards Received:

The 6th National Children's Literature Award of the Chinese Writers Association

Copyrights sold: South Korea