RED AZALEA

Anchee Min recounts her suppressed life growing up in Shanghai during the late fifties and sixties. Deprived of any childhood, or personal choices. Min suffered almost always in silence, yet never lost the inner spirit to seek expressive freedom. Nancy Kwan does an excellent job narrating Min's sensitive accounts of her experiences, thoughts and disappointments. She reenacts Min's personal ordeals with appropriate defiance and bittersweet expression and also brings out Min's creative side as a poet. B.J.P. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT 95]