Wild Swans
(Jung Chang)
?Only when the pain is a bit far from us we can talk about it! Therefore, only after she has been living for years in a new country where she can be quiet and peaceful, only after she has finally got a safe home where to live with a lovely and supportive man, Jung Chang can face the atrocity she knew in her life and she tried to escape. Telling her story she starts to face with her private ghosts, with her past that is still covering her present days with nightmares and fears. Telling the truly story is the only and supreme way to give justice to herself, to her grandmother, and, above all, to her mother. Wild swans is above all this..it is the story of an entire country showed through the stories of three women, whose lives are the symbol of the life of the whole Chinese people during the years the story covers. These three lives comes into one and into an unicuum meaning when Jung?s mother breaks the wall of silence and starts telling her daughter the whole truth about her life, when she happens to visit Jung who lives in England. When she starts speaking, for the first time in her life, that woman turns into a mother, into her own mother she finds to her surprise she has never knew. While telling her story, Jung?s mother comes to life and claims for dignity. Because pain needs these things above all?respect, truth, knowledge and memory. Nobody can turn the clock back. Nobody can give us what we lost, but we need at least this: that someone knows what happened to us, so that our pains won?t be forgotten and would teach others not to let that atrocity happens again. Wild swans is, therefore, the story of the entire Chinese country, from thirties to our days. It gives us the idea of what it meant to be a Chinese during all the wars China knew, during the dictatorship of Mao and what it means to be a Chinese nowadays. Fascinating and terrifying at the same time, this book will capture you from the first page. Words and ideas have a silent but great power! So, this book is a bestseller in Great Britain, and little by little it is clandestinely distributed in China, too because neither the censure or violence can close the mouth of truth.
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