The girl who dreamed : a Hong Kong memoir of triumph against all odds  The Girl Who Dreamed: A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against All Odds 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2642474B

  Author(s)

  Leung, Sonia

  City

  Hong Kong 

  Country

  China 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789887674856 

  Date of Publication

  2024 

  Publisher

  Blacksmith books  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  292 

  Subject

  Biography / Memoirs

  Subject

  Sociology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Leung, Sonia

  Publisher

  Blacksmith books  

• Description

  The Girl Who Dreamed: A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against All Odds 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.