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A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
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- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Adeline Yen Mah
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Editora Companhia das Letras
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- French, English, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9780606330527
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“As soon as I got home from school, Aunt Baba noticed the silver medal dangling from the left breast pocket of my uniform.”
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