THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS THE MULTI-MILLION
COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION 'A must-read ... magnificent' DAILY TELEGRAPH *****
'Beautiful and moving' ELIF SHAFAK OBSERVER Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a
generation an epic personal history of Jung her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of
China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was
under the last emperor moving through Mao Zedong's rule especially the Cultural Revolution
during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It
finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'.
Jung at that propitious juncture became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for
the West. Nearly half a century on China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a
global power the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through
those decades Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences
dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her
books were (and are) banned. Fly Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the
story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's
love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father both of whom
died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact the
past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her and moulded the present
China and what's more it promises to herald the future. China is now at another watershed
moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother.
Fly Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience and a book filled with drama
love curiosity and incredible history - both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting told
in Jung's clear honest and compelling voice it is memoir writing at its best. 'Profoundly
revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of
modern China' RORY STEWART 'Another wonder book from Jung Chang...I am quite blown away by it'
LADY ANTONIA FRASER
