MUKTA VIHANG CHINCHYA TEEN KANYA

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China it is an engrossing record of Maos impact on China an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world and an inspiring tale of courage and love.587~ describes the life of her grandmother a warlords concubine; her mothers struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen then worked as a peasant a barefoot doctor a steelworker and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds Chang captures in gripping moving x and ultimately uplifting x detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.