Jung Chang

Broschiertes Buch

Wild Swans

Three Daughters of China

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was briefly a Red Guard, and then a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker and an electrician. She came to Britain in 1978, and became the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. Her books include 'Wild Swans', which won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year, and sold over 10 million copies. She lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins UK / William Collins
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 158619
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 131mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780007463404
• ISBN-10: 0007463405
• Artikelnr.: 34525319

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