Fly, Wild Swans: A memoir of China's ideological paralysis under Mao

In many ways, the book is Ms Jung's tribute and love letter to her mother, her "guardian angel"

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

by Jung Chang

Published by William Collins

309 pages ₹599

  Best known for her 1991 family autobiography, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Chinese-born British writer Jung Chang is back with a follow-up to that popular book. Wild Swans, an epic personal history of the author, her mother and grandmother, was a book that defined a generation and offered a first-hand view of the depredations of Mao Zedong’s era. Fly, Wild Swans brings the story of her family as well as that of China’s over the years up to date. In many ways,