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Chargement... Daughter of the River: An Autobiographypar Hong Ying
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An autobiography of a life that I simply have no comprehension of. Born in China during the 60s famine, this tells of a girl's coming of age, how she finds her place in her family, and finds herself. But it's set against a background of dire poverty and family secrets. She doesn't fit and wants to get out - education being her passport, but she is begrudged that freedom by her mother. It's almost unbearably hard, but is not without hope. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Daughter of the River is a memoir of China unlike any other. Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s and raised in the slums of Chongqing, Hong Ying was constantly aware of hunger and the sacrifices required to survive. As she neared her eighteenth birthday, she became determined to unravel the secrets that left her an outsider in her own family. At the same time, a history teacher at her school began to awaken her sense of justice and her emerging womanhood. Hong Ying's wrenching coming-of-age would teach her the price of taking a stand and show her the toll of totalitarianism, poverty, and estrangement on her family. With raw intensity and fearless honesty, Daughter of the River follows China's trajectory through one woman's life, from the Great Famine through the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The whole book is like under a cloud of painful memories and depressing recollections.
It was also hard to follow at times since the narration jumps from the past the present and back again.
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