To the Edge of the Sky

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Summary: An Education
Review: A complete education to me (aged 25) and should be read in schools and colleges everywhere. It offers so much to those who read it.. communicative, readable, interesting, educational and a powerful example, a lesson not a reminder to many of us.

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Summary: A wonderfully written, absolutely compelling memoir
Review: I have read many memoirs about life in China during the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, but I found this one to be among the very best I've read. The author writes from the heart, and includes so many fascinating and sometimes horrifying details. I found most interesting watching her own inner transformation, from a model child who believed all she was told about Mao and the Chinese government, to an adult who had the courage to defy her unjust accusers without fear. I pray for her continued happiness in England.

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Summary: A wonderfully written, absolutely compelling memoir
Review: I have read many memoirs about life in China during the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, but I found this one to be among the very best I've read. The author writes from the heart, and includes so many fascinating and sometimes horrifying details. I found most interesting watching her own inner transformation, from a model child who believed all she was told about Mao and the Chinese government, to an adult who had the courage to defy her unjust accusers without fear. I pray for her continued happiness in England.

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Summary: To the edge of the sky
Review: I honestly loved this book. Not only is it gramatically very well written but the series of events are perfectly described. Its not my typical type of book. I picked it up by mistake while on holiday in (the country at the edge of the sky), from then on I've been fascinated by reading such biographies to experience, if only mentally, the type of pain women across the world have had to endure.
It makes it easier to strive towards a better tomorrow.

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Summary: Incredible Story
Review: I stumbled across it in a bookstore, finished it all in two visits. I couldn't hold back my tears, and cried like a baby in the midst of the crowd.

It is still unbelievable to me that one could endure so much yet be so resilient in one's life. I am not unfamiliar of political/social trauma China has gone through, as a native myself. Yet this is a story that hits the chord.