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

Yen Mah, Adeline

ISBN 10: 0140287809 / ISBN 13: 9780140287806

Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 2004

About this Item

Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots : The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
• Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140287809
• ISBN 13: 9780140287806
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Kim McGillivray
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.359 pounds

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Synopsis

This is a Chinese woman's story of how she suffered appalling emotional deprivation and rejection by her family as a child growing up in China and Hong Kong in the 40s and 50s, and of its consequences in her adult life, above which she rose to make a happy marriage and become an extremely successful doctor and business woman in the USA. It's also a story about Hong Kong: of middle class life at the time of European concessions and thereafter.

About the Author

Born and brought up in Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah took a degree at London Univesity and has since lived in the USA.

''Lifelong reach of tentacles of fear. Dickensian. Riveting. Gripping. Reads more like thriller than autobiography.' Daily Telegraph
''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.