Soumchi

A young boy coming of age in British-occupied Jerusalem trades away one possession after another, only to find something much more wonderful his first loveWhen Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyed even if it is a girl's bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighbourhood, he dreams o...