The Diary of Ma Yan
This book is not new, but I’ve just learned about it today on a column in local daily newspaper. The article was written in Mandarin so I went on some google-ings, and Wow! How did I miss this? This girl Ma Yan should be 19 by now, this book contains daily entries of her in year 2001.
Background
Ma Yan was 13 when writing her stunning diary, during that time she and her brother were studying in a boarding school 12.5 miles away from her home, Zhangjiashu Village, NingXia, China. The only transportation available was farm tractor, which charged RMB$ 1 per trip at that time. They did not have the money to travel by it so they took 5 hours to walk back to home during weekends.