A powerful and passionate memoir,
My Name Is Number 4
is the gripping tale of one girl's life growing up during China's Cultural Revolution.
Number Four will have a difficult life.
These are the words that were uttered upon Ting-xing Ye's birth. Soon this prophecy would prove only too true. . . .
Here is the real-life story about the fourth child in a family torn apart by China's Cultural Revolution. After the death of both of her parents, Ting-xing and her siblings endured brutal Red Guard attacks on their schools and even in their home. At the age of sixteen, Ting-xing is exiled to a prison farm far from the world she knows.
How she struggled through years of constant terror while keeping her spirit intact is at the heart of
. Haunting and inspiring, Ting-xing Ye's personal account of this horrific period in history is one that no reader will soon forget.