The Diary Of Ma Yan: The Life of a Chinese Schoolgirl - Couverture souple

Yan, Ma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844080765 ISBN 13 : 9781844080762

Editeur : Virago Press Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

'No more money for school this year. I till the land in order to pay for my brothers' schooling. When I think of the happy times at school, I can almost imagine myself there. How I want to study! I want to go to school, Mother. How wonderful if I could stay at school forever!' - Ma Yan, aged 13 In a remote province in Northeastern China, in May 2001, the journalist Pierre Haski and his group are preparing to leave the tiny village they have been visiting. Suddenly a peasant woman approaches and urgently thrusts into their hands a letter, written on the back of a seed packet, and three small brown notebooks filled with characters in a finely drawn pencil. When their precious bundle is translated, they are astonished to find they hold thirteen-year-old Ma Yan's diary and a passionate letter she'd written to her mother, headed, I Want To Study. The Diary of Ma Yan tells the moving tale of a spirited girl who wants to overcome her impoverished life, who prefers to go hungry in order to save money to buy a pen, who feels deeply for her mother, and her young brother . It is a story of indomitable spirit, wonderful humour and thirsty intelligence. Autobiography Isbn 1 84408 076 5

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ma Yan lives in Ningxia in North-eastern China

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844080765
• ISBN 13: 9781844080762
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible