Wild Swans by Jung Chang
A new edition of one of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, with a new introduction by the author.‘It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this book’ Mary Wesley
‘Everything about Wild Swans is extraordinaryIt 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
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007166114 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007166117 |
| Title | Wild Swans |
| Author | Jung Chang |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2003-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 704 |
| Prizes | Winner of British Books Award 1993, Winner of NCR Book Award 1992 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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