by Anchee Min · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422655343
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«Azalea Roja» is the autobiography of Anchee Min, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (315 pages, in Spanish).
Anchee Min recounts her youth in Mao's China: sent to a labor camp, she finds a secret relationship with another young woman. Later she is chosen to play Azalea Roja in the movie version of a political opera by Madame Mao, a turn that will mark her life.
Memoirs originally published in English as «Red Azalea» in 1993; this Spanish edition appeared in 1995.
Recommended for readers of biographies and contemporary history, with an interest in Mao's China and first-person accounts.
Anchee Min is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, and six historical novels. Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as Jiang Qing, the wife of chairman Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China.
