by Emily Wu, Larry Engelmann · Świat Książki · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788324711093
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«Piórko na wietrze» is the autobiography of Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann, published by Świat Książki in paperback (368 pages, in Polish).
Emily Wu recalls her childhood in Mao's China, during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. It all begins on her third birthday, when she meets her father, an academic declared a class enemy, in a concentration camp. After the looting of their home, the family suffers humiliation, forced labor and violence.
The original book, «Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos», was published in 2006; the Polish translation is from 2008.
For readers of memoirs and contemporary history seeking a first-hand account of the Mao era.
