"Presents the story of the author's childhood in China during the civil war. The emotional and physical abuse by her stepmother and siblings, coupled with outright rejection by her father, shaped her life and made her determined to survive."@en
"The author tells of her childhood in China during its civil war and how the systematic emotional and physical abuse by her stepmother and siblings, coupled with outright rejection by her father, shaped her life and made her determined to survive."
"Thought to bring bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her, Adeline Yen Mah was discriminated against by her family all her life. "Falling leaves" is both the moving story of how she survived that rejection and an enthralling saga of a Chinese family, from the time of the foreign concessions to the rise of communist China and the commercial boom of Hong Kong."@en
"The autobiography of a Chinese woman growing up, unwanted, in a wealthy Shanghai family, in the midst of political turmoil. Beaten by her siblings, harshly treated by her stepmother and finally sent away to school, this is a true story of neglect. Yet it is written with the suspense and emotional force of a novel, set against a backdrop of collision between the East and West and, in the eloquence of its telling and the dignity of its indomitable protagonist, is finally uplifting."@en