Wu Engelmann: Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos

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Publikace: Feather in the Storm : A Childhood Lost in Chaos - neuveden. Emily Wu s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an ultra-rightist and class enemy. As a result, Wu s family would be torn apart and subjected to unending humiliation and abuse. Wu recounts this hidden holocaust in which millions of children and their families died. Feather in the Storm is an unforgettable story of the courage of one child in a quicksand world of endless terror." Publikace: Feather in the Storm : A Childhood Lost in Chaos - neuveden. Emily Wu's moving memoir of growing up in China during the unspeakably cruel and bleak years of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution (1958-1977), told from a child's point of view. First time in paperback!