by Adeline Yen Mah · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420441788
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«Las hojas que caen» is the memoir by Adeline Yen Mah, published by Alfaguara in paperback, 388 pages, in Spanish.
Adeline Yen Mah, fifth daughter of a well-to-do family in 1930s China, evokes a childhood marked by her mother's death, her father's remarriage, her stepmother's abuse, and her role as an unwanted daughter. Far from yielding, she turns that experience into a story of resistance and determination.
Autobiographical work originally published in 1997 as «Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter»; the Spanish edition appeared in 2000.
A suitable title for readers of memoirs, personal overcoming stories, and twentieth-century China, and also for reading clubs.
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.
