Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Softcover

Yen Mah, Adeline

 
9780141047089: Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141047089 ISBN 13: 9780141047089
Verlag: Penguin, 2010

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New 25th Anniversary Edition
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'I am still haunted by Mah's memoir . . . Riveting. A marvel of memory. Poignant proof of the human will to endure' Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club

1940s, Shanghai. As the civil war rages on and China falls under communist rule, young Adeline lives in constant fear. Not of the war, but of her family: blamed for the death of her mother, she is rejected by her father and abused by her cruel stepmother.

With the help of her aunt, Adeline escapes to the United States where she finds love, happiness and success. But will that be enough to quell a lifelong yearning for acceptance, or will she return to the family that rejected her years ago

Falling Leaves Return to their Roots is both the enthralling story of a Chinese family in a time of political upheaval, and a moving account of one girl's unrelenting will to survive.
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'Falling Leaves is a terrible and riveting family history . . . It is also a story about endurance and the cost it can exact. Gripping' Daily Telegraph

'An illuminating account of the destructive nature of family relationships set against a backdrop of China in change' Mail on Sunday

'An act, not of vengeance or bitterness, but of catharsis' Sunday Telegraph

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Thought to bring bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her, Adeline Yen Mah was discriminated against by her family all her life. Falling Leaves is both the moving story of how she survived that rejection and an enthralling saga of a Chinese family, from the time of the foreign concessions to the rise of Communist China and the commercial boom of Hong Kong.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141047089
ISBN 13 
9780141047089
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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