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Originally Posted by Gordon J Pownall Ok here's a couple of suggestions for September :-
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
A history of China from late 1800s to present day, told through the eyes of the author and following her mothers life as a Communist soldier duringthe Cultural Revolution and her grandmothers life as the concubine of a Chinese Warlord General.
This is a book that changes your whole perspective on life - particulalrly as it is an accurate and factual account of what went on 'behind closed doors'. The author totally holds the readers attention with her vivid and often harrowing recollections of life under the Mao regime. 
VIZ - just a bloody good escapist laugh......  |
That sounds like a really intereting book.... I might read it even if its not chosen!!
