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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother Stories of Loss and Love
Author: Xinran, Nicky Harman (Translator)
Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and or...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781451610895
ISBN-10: 1451610890
Publication Date: 3/8/2011
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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4.3 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 5
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reviewed Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love on + 6 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is an exceptional book that is very well written. Its a very tough read, especially if you have personal connections to China and/or China adoption. As a parent of girls adopted from China, the book brought many tears to my eyes and made me want to throw up many, many times. However, the personal stories of women in rural China are moving regardless of your personal connections.
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Helpful Score: 1
A tough book to get through especially if you have a child adopted from China. Provides a lot of insight into what has evolved from the early days of adoption up until recent times. Very descriptive allowing the reader to get a glimpse of what the unknown mothers have gone through and still go through today. It is so very sad what the women and children have had to endure over the years. I look at my adopted daughter through different eyes ...she is truly an incredible miracle!
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