by Jung Chang · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266121125
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«Les Cygnes sauvages» is the autobiography of Jung Chang, published by Pocket in paperback (634 pages, in French).
The autobiography follows her grandmother, a concubine of a general in feudal China; her mother, a communist militant in the regime's elite; and the author herself, who during the Cultural Revolution sees her parents denounced and is sent to the countryside, where she works as a peasant and a «barefoot doctor» before being able to reach Europe.
First installment of the «China Duology» series. This edition translates the original «Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China» (1991), winner of the NCR Book Award and the British Book Award.
For those interested in family memoirs with a historical backdrop and in the history of 20th-century China.
Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is banned in the People's Republic of China. Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, was published in June 2005. Reception of the work by academics has been largely negative, though the work has received acclaim in the popular press.
