编辑推荐ReviewUnlike 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) |
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