Xinran: Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Zehn Kapitel, zehn Frauen und viele schockierende Schicksale von Müttern, die ihre Töchter verloren haben - inklusive Xinrans eigener Geschichte. Ob als Folge der Ein-Kind-Politik, unmenschlicher antiker Traditionen oder der hässlichen ökonomischen Notwendigkeit: Manche Frauen mussten ihre Töchter zur Adoption freigeben oder wurden gezwungen, sie auszusetzen - auf der Straße, in Krankenhäusern, Waisenheimen oder auf Bahnhofsgleisen; andere mussten zusehen, wie ihnen ihre Töchter nach der Geburt entrissen und wie Katzenjunge ertränkt wurden. Dieses Buch ist eine Botschaft an alle chinesischen Mädchen, die nach Übersee adoptiert wurden, um ihnen die wahren Hintergründe ihrer Adoption zu zeigen und zu versichern, dass sie geliebt wurden und niemals vergessen werden. An extraordinarily powerful collection of heartbreaking, shocking stories, including Xinran's own experience, of Chinese mothers who have lost or had to abandon their daughters and are still searching...

Beschreibung

Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions or hideous economic necessity, these women had to give up their daughters for adoption, others were forced to abandon them - on city streets, outside hospitals, orphanages or on station platforms - and others even had to watch their baby daughters being taken away at birth, and drowned.

Personal, immediate, full of sorrow but also full of hope, this books sends a heart-rending message to Chinese girls who have been adopted to show them how things really were for their mothers, and to tell them they were loved and will never be forgotten.

Rezension

"This is an extraordinary book told with generosity and warmth by a brilliant storyteller" Hilary Spurling Financial Times

Klappentext

An extraordinarily powerful follow-up to her bestselling THE GOOD WOMEN OF CHINA - heartbreaking, shocking stories, including Xinran's own experience, of Chinese mothers who have lost or had to abandon their daughters and are still searching. The book sends a heartrending message from their birth mothers to all those Chinese girls who have been adopted overseas to show them how things really were for their mothers, and to tell them they were loved and will never be forgotten.