Reviews round-up
Fly, Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
7 of 9 critics positive
10 reviews: 2 raves, 5 positives, 2 mixed; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“it’s a must-read”
Wild Swans has a sequel at last – and it’s a must-read
“Jung Chang’s sequel to Wild Swans is a triumph”
Jung Chang’s sequel to Wild Swans is a triumph
“a poignant, powerful memoir”
Book review: ‘Fly, Wild Swans’ is a poignant, powerful memoir
“painfully personal tribute to her mother”
'Fly, Wild Swans' is Jung Chang's painfully personal tribute to her mother
“a daughter of China speaks again”
Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang review – a daughter of China speaks again
“the work of a woman revealing the forces that shaped her”
Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang: the work of a woman revealing the forces that shaped her
“love letters to the strong matriarchs who shaped their identities”
Arundhati Roy and Jung Chang: Daughters of suffering
“the exiled author reflects on China from her adopted British home”
Fly, Wild Swans review: Jung Chang’s critical distance
“the picture Chang paints of contemporary China is depressing”
After reading the Wild Swans sequel, I never want to go to China
“delves further into a complex personal and political history”
A Blockbuster Memoirist Returns to China, and the Mother Who Shaped Her
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
