Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself – Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China’s twentieth century. Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions, this is a masterpiece which is extraordinary in every way. ‘Riveting; an extraordinary epic’ Mail on Sunday
‘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
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