by Adeline Yen Mah · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782744151866
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«Feuilles d'automne» is Adeline Yen Mah's memoir, published by France Loisirs in hardback (301 pages, in French).
Adeline Yen Mah reconstructs her childhood in colonial China in the 1930s: the death of her mother, the contempt of her stepmother Niang, the family's exile to Hong Kong and her confinement in an orphanage, where she finds an escape in books. A true story told in the first person.
Originally published in 1997 as «Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter»; this French edition is from 2002.
A read for those interested in memoirs, autobiographies and the history of twentieth-century China; often featured in book clubs.
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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.
