by Adeline Yen Mah · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140265989
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«Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter» is the autobiography of Adeline Yen Mah, from Penguin UK in paperback (228 pages, in English).
Adeline Yen Mah reconstructs in these memoirs her childhood as an unwanted daughter in China during the Communist Revolution and in Hong Kong, marked by her father's rejection, her stepmother's hostility and guilt over her mother's death, until her departure to the United States, where she became a doctor.
The book was originally published in 1997 and its Chinese title, 落葉歸根 (Luo ye gui gen), appears on the cover.
For readers of memoirs and biographies about twentieth-century China, family drama and the experience of women.
Adeline Yen Mah (馬嚴君玲) is a Chinese-American author and physician. She grew up in Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and is known for her autobiography Falling Leaves.
