Jung Chang

Broschiertes Buch

Wild Swans

Three Daughters of China

Beschreibung

Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century.

Autor

Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She left China for Britain in 1978 and obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of York in 1982, the first person from the People’s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London with her husband, Jon Halliday, with whom she wrote Mao: The Unknown Story .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780743246989
• ISBN-10: 0743246985
• Artikelnr.: 21469955

Rezensionen

'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