The book is called"chinese cinderella".Its a true story of an unwanted daughter----the author
The author's name is Adeline Yen Mah for now, her original name is Yen Jun Ling.The word Mah is adapted from her husband's surname.
This books surrounded authors unwanted childhood from her birth until age 14
It had been a hard time for her and i feel bad for her
Her story is very touching, and i almost cried out of it.
The main characters are her family---Big elder sister lydia, Big elder brother gregory,Second elder brother edgar,Third elder brother James, her herself adeline, 4th younger brother franklin(who is her stepmother's son and so do her 5th younger sister) and 5th younger sister Susan,her aunt she liked the most aunt baba,her grandfather she called yeye, her father, and her stepmother---a half french half chinese, she called her niang
She was a very unlucky girl, her mother died of giving birth to her,and her whole family considered her bad luck
There were only few person who still loves her----her yeye , her aunt baba and her second brother edgar.
Although she were born amidst hardship, she didn't blame anyone, not even a sigh or a despair.
She was really good at study, a week after the kindergarden had started,she'd already been leading the class.
She was born just a few years before the Second World War, this affect her life a little.
She and her family had moved to Shanghai from tianjin due to the war, and she started her primary school life there and she continued to be the top of the class.BUT, the life in Shanghai was more pathetic then it was in tianjin.It happened a lot of things during that Shanghai period.
After a few incidents, she was sent to Hong Kong and her secondary school started there.
OMG, what can I say......SHE IS A GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!She skipped grade to form five just at the age of 13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By this she pleasured her father and she was sent to England to study further and she became a writer and a physician.Of course this is just a brief view of the whole book.If you want to find out what happened during this 14 years she passed with a hard time, go to the library now and get it borrowed!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT "YEYE"! GRANDPA LA!!!
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