by EmilyPrager (Author)
A memoir by American jounalist Emily Prager about the search for her adopted daughter's roots in today's China. In 1994, Prager adopted seven month old Lulu in China. Five years later she returned to spend three months in Wuhu city, where Lulu had been found on the street. Within a week of her arrival NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and anti-American feeling ran high. Prager, Lulu and the townspeople became involved in a relationship that stood politics and prejudice on its head.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 05 Jul 2001
ISBN 10: 070116915X
ISBN 13: 9780701169152
Book Overview: Enthralling and moving memoir by a journalist, novelist and single mother about the search for her dopted daughter's roots in today's China - a story of origins, identity, the meaning of family, and the ystery of a young girl's past.