Wild Swans (three Daughters Of China)

By (author) Chang Jung
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OVER 13M COPIES SOLD – THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON – NUMBER 8 ON SUNDAY TIMES BEST OF THE BESTSELLER LIST

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OVER 13M COPIES SOLD – THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON – NUMBER 8 ON SUNDAY TIMES BEST OF THE BESTSELLER LIST

Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.

Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself – Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China''s twentieth century.

Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions, this is a masterpiece which is extraordinary in every way.

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''An inspiring tale of women who survived every kind of hardship, deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intact''

Hillary Clinton, O, The Oprah Magazine

''A mesmerizing memoir''

TIME Magazine

‘It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this book''

Mary Wesley

‘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

‘There has never been a book like this''

Edward Behr, Los Angeles Times

Biographical note:

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. ‘Wild Swans’ won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year. She lives in London.

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Three Daughters of China – One of the Sunday Times Top 100 Bestselling Books of the Past 50 Years

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Three Daughters of China – One of the Sunday Times Top 100 Bestselling Books of the Past 50 Years

• Reissued to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the book’s publication.

• ‘Wild Swans’ is the biggest grossing non fiction paperback in publishing history.

• A worldwide phenomenon, it has sold over 13 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages.

Competition: The;Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks;Pachinko;Joy Luck Club;Memoirs of a Geisha;Mao’s Great Famine;Anne Boleyn;A History of the World;Five;House of Glass;Becoming. by;Amy Tan;Jung Chang;Dan Jones;And