Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext A new edition of the classic book which charts the lives of three Chinese women, Chang's grandmother, mother and herself. First published in 1991, it's been a phenomenal success. 'It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this book.' Mary Wesley Zusammenfassung OVER 13M COPIES SOLD – THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON – NUMBER 8 ON SUNDAY TIMES BEST OF THE BESTSELLER LIST

Product details

• Authors: Jung Chang, Chang Jung
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780007463404
• ISBN: 978-0-00-746340-4
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Chinesische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), China, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999