'Immensely moving and unsettling; an unforgettable portrait of the brain-death of a nation.' -- The Sunday Times 'Wild Swans made me feel like a five-year-old. This is a family memoir that has the breadth of the most enduring social history.' -- The Independent on Sunday 'There has never been a book like this.' -- Los Angeles Times 'Everything about Wild Swans is extraordinary. It arouses all the emotions, such as pity and terror, that great tragedy is supposed to evoke, and also a complex mixture of admiration, despair and delight at seeing a luminous intelligence directed at the heart of darkness.' -- The Sunday Telegraph