In good condition - ex-library book
 
An old woman found the little boy sitting beside a highway in China.  He was lost, and only knew that his name as Ba, which means eight in Chinese. Ba couldn't remember where he came from, but he recalled a patient, sweet voice counting to eight and a hard hand striking him.  He could do tricks and turn somersaults, and so the villagers nicknamed him the Little Tumbler.  Then a group of acrobats came to town, under the supervision of Wang, the great conjurer.  Moved by a strange attaction, Ba decided that he must leave the old woman and join them.
 
How the inscrutable Wang recognized Ba as a former member of his company and took him along as a vertual prisoner on his trip to Peking, and how Ba finally learned the secret of his past, is the basis for one intriguing stories.  Set in the China she remembers from her childhood, this gentle but exotic tale freshly evokes the colour of times gone by.