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 Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah
Description: ISBN 0582848881 / Author: Adeline Yen Mah / Genre: Junior Books / The story of a Chinese woman and how she suffered appalling emotional ... more  Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah ... deprivation and rejection by her family as a child growing up in China and Hong Kong. She tells of the consequences in her adult life, above which she rose to make a happy marriage and become a successful doctor in the USA.Newest Review: ... what she is really made of. It is good that there are pictures of the "real" people in this book which makes it so ... more ... worth while and so much more realistic. Her family which of course same as the ones in falling leaves.. I would advise you to look at the pictures to get a real grip of what life was like back then. If you have only read falling leaves, which does not have the pictures in, i guess you may be quite desperate to see what her evil family are like. Adeline goes through some awful and heartbreaking situations at the ages of only 5. Here are some of them.. When adelines Grandmother dies (her fathers mother) This onl...more |
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Format: hardback, Publisher: Pearson Education Limited, ISBN: 058
Adeline Yen Mah first told her story in the emotive, bestselling ... |
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Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah: The hidden story (774 words)
by jl_kiwi - written on 11.05.02 (Very useful, 3606 readings)
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ADELINE YEN MAH - chinese cinderella a MUST READ book. You may have heard of the international best seller falling leaves which is also by her but talks mainly about the life after her childhood. Chinese cinderella goes into more detail about her like growing up and how such an innocent looking girl went through so much torture. This was one of a few biographys that i have read and it is most certainly the best and the one that makes you cry. Chinese cinderella, it will eventually tell you at the end of the book what and where chinese cinderella originated from. You may have heard of the english disney version of Cinderella but nothing compares to ...
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