[Item #5282] Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter. Adeline Yen Mah.
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. “Adelin Yen Mah was born in 1937 in Tianjin, a port city one thousand miles north of Shanghai. She was the fifth and youngest child of an affluent family. Her grand aunt—in an unprecedented achievement—had founded the Shanghai Women’s Bank in 1924, and her father was a revered businessman whose reputation for turning iron into gold began when he started his own firm at the age of nineteen. Yet wealth and position could not shield young Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of her own family….As the Red Army approached in 1949, the family moved to Hong Kong. Adeline was shuttled off to boarding school in virtual isolation, forbidden visitors, mail, and all contact with her family. Burying herself in books, she dreamed of freedom and a new life. Told in her own words, the story of Adeline’s valiant, painful, and ultimately triumphant struggle toward adulthood and independence unfolds with stunning emotional power” (Qtd. from Front & Back Cover Flaps). As the above-quoted flap copy relays, “Falling Leaves: the Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter” unflinchingly catalogs — in prose both riveting and artful — the life of its author, of Adelin Yen Mah (b. 1937). First published in 1997, this work made the New York Times Bestseller list almost immediately upon publication. Eventually, its sales would total over a million copies worldwide, and its author has lived to see it translated into over twenty different languages...a testament, surely to its peerless emotional power. [ISBN: 0-471-24742-1]. Hardcover in unclipped dust-jacket: First American Edition, although not explicated as such on copyright page; First Printing, as indicated by number sequence thereon. In very fine condition with only minute shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; & few exhibits of minute-to-modest bumping variously present at same; at recto of FFEP (near rightmost fine-edge) is the embossed library seal of one H. Gail Gordon, the work’s previous care-taking collector-owner. Dust-jacket also in very fine condition, with only correspondingly light shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine. Very Fine / Very fine. [Item #5282]

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