Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

So what is this surprise book, first published in English in 1991, which sold 5 million copies between 1992 and 1994, was named in 1994 “Book of the Year” in Great Britain, with more than a million copies sold in one year, gave to its author -a former red guard in Mao’s China – the 25,000 pounds of the NCR Book Award, ranked eleventh in the 100 books loved in Britain in the 20th century?