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The Hundred Secret Senses

by Amy Tan

The Hundred Secret Senses Cover

ISBN13: 9780804111096
ISBN10: 080411109x
Condition: Standard
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"THE WISEST AND MOST CAPTIVATING NOVEL TAN HAS WRITTEN."--The Boston Sunday Globe<BR>"TRULY MAGICAL . . . UNFORGETTABLE . . . The first-person narrator is Olivia Laguni, and her unrelenting nemesis from childhood on is her half-sister, Kwan Li. . . . It is Kwan's haunting predictions, her implementation of the secret senses, and her linking of the present with the past that cause this novel to shimmer with meaning--and to leave it in the readers mind when the book has long been finished."<BR>--The San Diego Tribune<BR>"HER MOST POLISHED WORK . . . Tan is a wonderful storyteller, and the story's many strands--Olivia's childhood, her courtship and marriage, Kwan's ghost stories and village tales--propel the work to its climactic but bittersweet end." --USA Today<BR>"TAN HAS ONCE MORE PRODUCED A NOVEL WONDERFULLY LIKE A HOLOGRAM: turn it this way and find Chinese-Americans shopping and arguing in San Francisco; turn it that way and the Chinese of Changmian village in 1864 are fleeing into the hills to hide from the rampaging Manchus. . . . THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES doesn't simply return to a world but burrows more deeply into it, following new trails to fresh revelations.<BR> --Newsweek
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iluvhart252, May 16, 2007 (view all comments by iluvhart252)
I think Tan wrote an excellent book and the first-person narration is great. One of her best yet!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780804111096
Author:
Tan, Amy
Publisher:
Ivy Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
China
Subject:
San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject:
Sisters
Subject:
San francisco
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
Chinese American women
Subject:
China Fiction.
Copyright:
1997
Edition Description:
Revised and
Series Volume:
3
Publication Date:
March 1997
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
6.86x4.18x1.04 in. .43 lbs.
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