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BOOK: The Girl Who Dreamed: A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against the Odds
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BOOK: The Girl Who Dreamed: A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against the Odds
Sheung Wan- PICK UP IN STORE (collection within 14 days)
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At the age of 14, Sonia Leung was raped by her ping-pong coach.
She had moved from China two-and-a-half years earlier to join her family in Hong Kong, but she could not fit in. The family of six lived in a cramped subdivided hut in a Kowloon squatter village but rarely communicated with each other. The difficulties of adjusting to colonial Hong Kong heightened the tensions between her parents. Feeling trapped and unloved, Sonia was too afraid to tell anyone about the rape. She saved money by working part-time at McDonald’s and, a year later, she bought a one-way plane ticket to Taipei and ran away from home.
The Girl Who Dreamed is a memoir of her childhood in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan – and how, through work and further education, she found her way to an independent life away from the family and world from which she needed to free herself.
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback