基本信息出版社：Penguin Putnam~trade
页码：288 页
出版日期：1998年03月
ISBN：0140265988
条形码：9780140265989
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
外文书名：落叶归根

内容简介 The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais played against the extraordinary political events in China and Hong Kong. Written with the emotional force of a novel but with a vividness drawn from a personal and political background. "Falling Leaves" has become a surprise bestseller all over the world.
作者简介 Adeline Yen Mah took studied at London Univesity and now lives in the USA. ''My Chinese Cinderella. Her father's stunningly beautiful new young wife makes Snow White's wicked stepmother look like Mary Poppins. A compelling story.' - The Mail.
编辑推荐 Review
Unlike many other books about life in 20th-century China, economic oppression does not figure large here. Adeline Yen Mah is from a prosperous family and has spent most of her life in the United States. Instead, it is the oppression and mental cruelty inflicted on her by her scheming stepmother that is the real tragedy of this fine work of autobiography. From early childhood, when her glamorous Eurasian stepmother thought up terrible punishments and deprivations, Adeline stayed in the emotional grip of this evil woman, even when she became a successful and wealthy doctor, always ready to forgive and extend the hand of friendship. Although Falling Leaves offers fascinating insights into Chinese society, it is the universal sense of pain and rejection that makes it such a marvellous, haunting book. (Kirkus UK)