Publisher's Synopsis
Ken Catran, popular children's author brings us this poignant tale set in the goldfields of Otago during the 1860s.The story follows the lives of two young people, both very different, drawn to the goldfields for the same reason - they all hope to strike it rich. One of the main characters is a young Chinese girl, and the other a European boy. As well as being a plot-driven story, this book will examine the cultural differences between these two. This will provide interesting discussion points for NZ society today, where we still grapple with many of these same cultural problems.LIN AND THE RED STRANGER shows how people are shaped by struggle and also by adversity and how the goldfields shaped our society in the nineteenth century. How it changed people who then went on to change their world.**Finalist in the Senior Fiction category of the NZ Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2004**
