I Brought the Future Home

In the winter of 1957, seven-year-old Xuxu and her grandmother depend on each other for survival amid hunger and cold. The whole village has run out of grain, Tiedan's father freezes to death on a snowy night, and Grandma lies burning with fever. With nowhere to turn, Xuxu accidentally touches a "time-space bridge" beneath the dying old locust tree at the village entrance— She can travel to the year 2030. That world has white flour steamed buns, brick houses with tiled roofs, iron vehicles that run without oxen or horses, and fields of golden wheat rolling like waves. This world has only famine, ice and snow, and Grandma's ever-weakening cough. And so, a small, thin girl, with her chappe...