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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
paperback
Published:
5 April, 2004
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780007176151 |
| ISBN10 | 0007176155 |
| Number Of Pages | 720 |
| Item Weight | 521 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 42 x 196 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Harper Perennial |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | New edition |
Media Reviews
'It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this book.' Mary Wesley 'Mesmerising.' Antonia Fraser, The Times 'Everything about Wild Swans is extraordinary. It arouses all the emotions, such as pity and terror, that great tragedy is supposed to evoke, and also a complex mixture of admiration, despair and delight at seeing a luminous intelligence directed at the heart of darkness.' Minette Marrin, Sunday Telegraph 'Immensely moving and unsettling; an unforgettable portrait of the brain-death of a nation.' J. G. Ballard, Sunday Times ' Wild Swans made me feel like a five-year-old. This is a family memoir that has the breadth of the most enduring social history.' Martin Amis, Independent on Sunday 'Riveting!an extraordinary epic.' Mail on Sunday 'Of all the personal histories to have emerged out of China's twentieth-century nightmare, Wild Swans is the most deeply thoughtful and the most heart-rending I've read.' Spectator 'There has never been a book like this.' Edward Behr, Los Angeles Times
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Author's Bio
Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was briefly a Red Guard at the age of fourteen, and then a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker and an electrician. She came to Britain in 1978, and in 1982 became the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London.