MUKTA VIHANG CHINCHYA TEEN KANYA (Marathi)

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 MAO`S 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 WARLORD`S CONCUBINE; HER MOTHER`S 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.