Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos

Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos

â€œIt is my hope that this memoir may serve as a reminder and a memorial to all of the children who were lost in the Chaos,â€ Emily Wu writes at the beginning of Feather in the Storm.

Told from a childâ€™s and young girlâ€™s point of view, Wuâ€™s spellbinding accountâ€“which spans nineteen years of growing up during the chaos of Chinaâ€™s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolutionâ€“opens on her third birthday as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic and translator of American literary classics, her father had been designated an â€œultra-rightistâ€ and class enemy. As a result, Wuâ€™s family would be torn apart and subjected to an unending course of humiliation, hardship and physical and psychological abuse. Wu tells her story of this hidden Holocaust, in which millions of children and their families died, through a series of vivid vignettes that brilliantlyâ€“and innocentlyâ€“evoke the cruelty and brutality of what was taking place daily in the world around her. From watching helplessly as the family apartment is ransacked and her father carted off by former students to be publicly beaten, to her own rape and the hard labor and primitive rituals of life in a remote peasant village, Wu is persecuted as a child of the damned.

Wuâ€™s narrative is poignant, disturbing and unsentimental, and, despite the nature of what it describes, is filled with the resiliency of youthâ€“and even humor. That Emily Wu survived is remarkable. That she is able to infuse her story with such immediacy, power and unexpected beauty is the greatness of this book. Feather in the Storm is an unforgettable story of the courage and silent suffering of one small child set in a quicksand world of endless terror.
Country USA
Binding Hardcover
EAN 9780375424281
ISBN 0375424288
Label Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
NumberOfItems 1
NumberOfPages 352
PublicationDate 2006-10-03
Publisher Pantheon
ReleaseDate 2006-10-03
Studio Pantheon

Country	USA
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780375424281
ISBN	0375424288
Label	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2006-10-03
Publisher	Pantheon
ReleaseDate	2006-10-03
Studio	Pantheon

Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos

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