The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan

Descriere The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan

A New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Orange Prize for fiction, The Hundred Secret Senses is the wisest and most captivating novel Tan has written (The Boston Globe). \nThe wisest and most captivating novel (Boston Globe) from the author of the bestselling The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir Where the Past Begins \n Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her yin eyes. Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.\n

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PENGUIN GROUP

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9780143119081

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