Memoir of Misfortune

Name: Memoir of Misfortune
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ISBN: 9780375709197

ISBN-10: 0375709193

ISBN-13: 9780375709197

Edition: N/A

Authors: Xiaokang Su

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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.…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.03" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Su Xiaokang was born in 1949 in China's Zhejiang province. He now lives in Princeton, New Jersey."From the Hardcover edition."