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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Amy Tan
ISBN: 0375701524
ISBN-13: 9780375701528
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Olivia is 3 years old when she discovers she has a half-sister, Kwan, who lives in China. When Kwan arrives to join the family, she reveals her secret to Olivia-she has visions and communicates with ghosts. Many years later, Kwan tries to encourage Olivia not to give up on her marriage to Simon and convinces them both to travel to China with her. In this evocative setting, Kwan has her most disturbing and revealing visions about her own and her sister's past lives.
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"...fans should warm to the loving depiction of Kwan's old-world eccentricities and to the homespun precision with which the sisters' complex bond is illuminated."
-- Kirkus
As in The Joy Luck Club, Tan unwinds another haunting tale that examines the ties binding Chinese Americans to their ancestors. . . . [She] tells a mysterious, believable story and delivers Kwan's clipped, immigrant voice and engaging personality with charming clarity.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company. -- Sheila Riley
-- Library Journal
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.25 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.7 pounds
Pages: 358
Publisher's Notes
The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivias family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivias sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes."Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister (who, among other things, is a source of infuriatingly good advice), Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China. And out of the friction between her narrators, Amy Tan creates a work that illuminates both the present and the past sweetly, sadly, hilariously, with searing and vivid prose."Truly magical...unforgettable...this novel...shimmer[s] with meaning."--San Diego Tribune"The Hundred Secret Senses doesn't simply return to a world but burrows more deeply into it, following new trails to fresh revelations."--Newsweek
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Unknown: Vintage. Trade PaperBack. 0375701524 A good reading copy only. 1998 Vintage Trade PaperBack . Good. 1998. ( more information)
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New York, New York, USA: Vintage Books/Random House, 1995. CH4 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very minor overall sehlf wear. A notable author who uses her experience as a second generation Chinese American woman to reveal the human condition. By the author of "The Joy Luck Club." 358p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. ( more information)
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New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1998. Trade pb. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Unknown printing. 358 p. ; 21 cm.. ( more information)
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The Hundred Secret Senses
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Vintage, 1998-06-30. Paperback. Very Good. Reading crease in cover at edge of spine; lower corner of front cover creased. Minor edge wear, a very nice copy. NOT an ex-library book; no publisher's remainder marks. No spine creasing. Military (APO/FPO) orders are welcomed - Thank you for your service. ( more information)
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Amy Tan
Vintage, 1998-06-30. Paperback. Good. Light edge and corner wear. Light creases to cover. Pages still clean and tight. ( more information)
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The Hundred Secret Senses
Tan, Amy
New York: Vintage, 1998. Fine/No Jacket. ISBN: 0-375-70152-4. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint. 358 pp. Third printing thus. The author's fifth book. Keywords: Fiction. ( more information)
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Hundred Secret Senses
Tan, Amy
New York: Vintage Books, 1995 In THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES, Amy Tan fashions a novel about love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister, Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China.. Trade Paperback. New/New. ( more information)
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Amy Tan
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