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The White Swans of Fal

by Jackie Ashton

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ISBN 100595303625
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One is the author herself, the second is her mother, an earnest Communist and the third is her grandmother, who was married off as a concubine to a warlord as a girl and lived to see her family suffer for this unfortunate Cited by: Wild Swans won the NCR Book Award and the British Book of the Year.

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Ashton relates the story of two souls. It is through these souls that we come to understand one of our purposes on earth. Elizabeth Harrowsmith and William De Logos are forever bound by a force they do not fully understand. The deadly coronavirus is just one of several "white swans" circling the global economy that could present the biggest challenge since the financial crisis, according to economist Nouriel Roubini.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang, Simon & Schuster pp. ISBN Summary 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.

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