Review An inspiring tale of women who survived every kind of hardship, deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intactHillary Clinton, O, The Oprah MagazineA mesmerizing memoirTIME MagazineIt is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this bookMary WesleyEverything 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 darknessMinette Marrin, Sunday TelegraphImmensely moving and unsettling; an unforgettable portrait of the brain-death of a nationJ. G. Ballard, Sunday TimesWild Swans made me feel like a five-year-old. This is a family memoir that has the breadth of the most enduring social historyMartin Amis, Independent on SundayThere has never been a book like thisEdward Behr, Los Angeles Times Book Description Three Daughters of China One of the Sunday Times Top 100 Bestselling Books of the Past 50 Years About the Author 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 Peoples 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. Read more
