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A Memoir of Misfortune

By Xiaokang Su

A Memoir of Misfortune Contemporary literature

A Memoir of Misfortune

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Su Xiaokang had faced calamity before: in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he became the object of a government manhunt and was forced to flee China, leaving behind his wife and young son. Eventually his family was allowed to join him in exile in the United States, and he believed the worst was behind him. Then a terrible automobile accident left his wife, Fu Li, unable to move or speak. In this remarkably honest account, Su, who blamed himself for his family's disaster, writes wrenchingly of his inner torment and despair. He describes the pain of living in exile, his desperate search for a miracle cure for Fu Li, and his bemusement at his teenage son's increasing Americanization. Above all, Su's moving memoir invites us along on a deeply personal odyssey, as a man who had once been at the center of an international political drama dedicates himself to the far more demanding task of remaking an emotional world for his wife and son.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
354
Release Date:
2002-07-09
Publication Date:
2002-07-09
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375709193
ISBN13:
9780375709197
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
395 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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