Brittany-Balzac and the little chinese seamstress

well so far this book is pretty good. I am on page 35 and so far there are these two boys that have to move to "the country side" for re-education and they movve to this mountain called phoenix of the sky and this place is pretty "uncivilized" by the standards of these boys. most of the people dont wear shoes. well these kids live in this house that kinda sucks because they have to share it with a pig but they seem to manage. they certinly dont really like their living situations, they are not allowed to see their families or anything so all they have is eachother. the boy that is telling the story plays the violin and is apparently really good. and the other boy (Luo) is currentlly ill with malaria which sucks because he just got a letter from the little seamstress princess that they get to take a couple days off and go perform over where she lives so hopefully he gets better soon! i believe that the narator is infactuated and kinda has a crush on the little seamstrees so we'll see how that turns out, cuz by the way he talks about her is pretty intence