Wild Swans

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6 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 Few books have ever had such an impact as Wild Swans. Since its first publication it has been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 10 millión copies. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family - grandmother, mother and daughter - Jung Chang reveals the whole tragic history of China's twentieth century. Jung Chang's grandmother's feet were bound as a child, and she was given to a warlord generál as a concubine. As the generál lay dying, she fled with her infant daughter. That daughter grew up to become active in the Communist movement's civil war against the Kuomintang. Following the Communist victory in 1949 she and her husband became senior officials. Jung Chang, their daughter, was raised in the privileged circles of China's Communist elite, but was to take the unimaginable step of... Tovább

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6 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 Few books have ever had such an impact as Wild Swans. Since its first publication it has been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 10 millión copies. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family - grandmother, mother and daughter - Jung Chang reveals the whole tragic history of China's twentieth century. Jung Chang's grandmother's feet were bound as a child, and she was given to a warlord generál as a concubine. As the generál lay dying, she fled with her infant daughter. That daughter grew up to become active in the Communist movement's civil war against the Kuomintang. Following the Communist victory in 1949 she and her husband became senior officials. Jung Chang, their daughter, was raised in the privileged circles of China's Communist elite, but was to take the unimaginable step of questioning Mao himself. Her parents were denounced and tortured, and she herself was exiled to the edge of the Himalayas. Wild Swans is a tale of extraordinary cruelty and bravery, of death and survival. Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions of China's long nightmare, it is both an important work of history and a remarkable humán document. 'Immensely moving and unsettlíng; an unforgettable portrait of the brain-death of a nation5 J.G. Ballard, Sunday Times $ Vissza