Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter - Hardcover

Mah, Adeline Yen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385327072 ISBN 13: 9780385327077

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 1999

Synopsis

When her mother dies giving birth to her, Adeline is considered bad luck by her family, thus when her father's new wife begins to treat her poorly while spoiling the others, Adeline can turn to no one for comfort and must endure the difficult times on her own.

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Review:

Adeline Yen Mah first told her story in the emotive, bestselling Falling Leaves, an adult autobiography which charted her passage from childhood through to womanhood. Here in Chinese Cinderella she relates her tale for younger readers, detailing her difficult life as an unwanted and deeply misunderstood child.

Christened with the Chinese name Jun-ling, her mother died just a few days after her birth, and from that moment her fate within her family was sealed. As one of seven siblings, including two children from her father's second marriage, Jun-ling struggled to maintain her dignity from a young age, treated as she was with a vicious contempt by all around her at home, apart from her beloved Aunt Baba and her elderly grandfather.

Growing up as she did in a relatively wealthy Chinese family in the 40s and 50s, the privileges that money would normally give such a child passed her by, and even her intelligence which shone through as early as kindergarten could not save her from the emotional brutality of a family who simply did not love her.

Jun-ling¹s story, written from the very heart of the successful adult she has become, is a stinging and hostile tale of a child whose young life was blighted by lack of care and affection and is an emotional roller coaster journey which, without actually falling into the trap of melodrama, will wring tears of rage, sadness and deep, deep frustration from any reader. (Age 10 and over) --Susan Harrison

Review:

"This memoir is hard to put down." -- "Publishers Weekly", Starred

"From the Paperback edition."

"This memoir is hard to put down." -- "Publishers Weekly," Starred

"From the Paperback edition."

"This memoir is hard to put down." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred

From the Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385327072
• ISBN 13: 9780385327077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 205