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Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah


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

Adeline Yen Mah

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Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the extraordinary political events in China and Hong Kong. Written with the emotional force of a novel but with a vividness drawn from a personal and political background. Falling Leaves has become a surprise bestseller all over the world.

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Unlike many other books about life in 20th-century China, economic oppression does not figure large here. Adeline Yen Mah is from a prosperous family and has spent most of her life in the United States. Instead, it is the oppression and mental cruelty inflicted on her by her scheming stepmother that is the real tragedy of this fine work of autobiography. From early childhood, when her glamorous Eurasian stepmother thought up terrible punishments and deprivations, Adeline stayed in the emotional grip of this evil woman, even when she became a successful and wealthy doctor, always ready to forgive and extend the hand of friendship. Although Falling Leaves offers fascinating insights into Chinese society, it is the universal sense of pain and rejection that makes it such a marvellous, haunting book. (Kirkus UK)


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Adeline Yen Mah took studied at London Univesity and now lives in the USA. My Chinese Cinderella. Her father's stunningly beautiful new young wife makes Snow White's wicked stepmother look like Mary Poppins. A compelling story.' - The Mail.
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Format
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288 pages

Author
Adeline Yen Mah

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd

Publication date
5th March 1998


ISBN
9780140265989
 

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