Bøger af Annabel Annuo Liu

What if you were told a devastating secret, a secret that had been guarded from you for thirty years, which shattered your view of your family and your marriage forever? Bilingual writer Annabel Annuo Liu chose to bury the secret and maintain the family façade. More than twenty years later, however, struggling to make sense of her life, she wrote her tenth book, the second volume of her memoirs. Unflinchingly candid and powerful, Under the Towering Tree: A Daughter's Memoir is a story within a story. It depicts the startling and heartbreaking family intrigue lurking beneath Liu's seemingly calm, content, and well-established life. Spanning four generations and two cultures, it is a portrait of a marriage, a family psychological drama, a mystery story, and a survivor's tale.

Born in Shanghai in 1935, Annabel Annuo Liu was two years old when Japan invaded China. She spent six years in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, living under the assumed name of Chang Tsen and narrowly escaping the Japanese military police because of her father's role in the Resistance. Liu was fourteen when her family fled to Taiwan in the waning days of the subsequent Civil War, which ended with Mao Zedong's establishment of the People's Republic of China. The policies and actions of Mao's regime caused the deaths of an estimated 77 million. All told, 100 million Chinese-equivalent to one-third of the current U.S. population-were killed during the first forty years of Liu's life. My Years As Chang Tsen: Two Wars, One Childhood is Liu's haunting memoir of her childhood in war-torn China. Against this violent backdrop, the bloodiest chapter of all human history, she writes about her precarious early life and her coming-of-age in the distinct culture of a bygone era. This second edition provides additional historical details and insight into the tragic life of Liu's mother during and after the wars. Following eight volumes of literary essays and fiction in Chinese, Liu's My Years As Chang Tsen is the first of her trilogy of memoirs written in English.