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taetris 's review for:
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
Rating memoirs is always a tricky business, especially when the author's mother tongue is not English.
Wild Swans is a sweeping family saga deeply embedded in the history of China in the twentieth century. Jung Chang tells the story of her family through three generations, focusing on the women. It is harrowing, shocking and hopeful at the same time.
Some of the explanations of what was happening politically seemed a bit rushed, but seeing as the book is already a chunker, I am not sure adding more explanations would have helped.
Wild Swans is a sweeping family saga deeply embedded in the history of China in the twentieth century. Jung Chang tells the story of her family through three generations, focusing on the women. It is harrowing, shocking and hopeful at the same time.
Some of the explanations of what was happening politically seemed a bit rushed, but seeing as the book is already a chunker, I am not sure adding more explanations would have helped.