The third is her grandmother, who was married off as a concubine to a warlord as a girl and lived to see her family suffer for this unfortunate connection again and again. The second is her mother, an earnest Communist who raised a large family at a time which was extremely bad for family life. One is the author herself, now a naturalised British citizen. I'm going to do this book justice, because damn it, it deserves it.įor those of you who missed the hype back in the early 1990s, Wild Swans is the true history of three generations of women living through the horrible nightmare that is modern Chinese history. I could sum the book up by saying it's the greatest ode to courage and resilience ever written, or that it's one of those rare books which make you despair of humanity and then go a long way towards restoring your faith in it, but no, I'm not going to leave it at that. Don't let that keep you from giving it a try, though, for by some strange mechanism, it also ranks among the most uplifting books I've read, chronicling as it does a courage, resilience and will to survive which are nothing short of riveting. OL15845961W Page_number_confidence 94.30 Pages 726 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200611223725 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 653 Scandate 20200608215850 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780006374923 Tts_version 3.Wild Swans may well be the most depressing book I've ever read.

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