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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Tan, Amy
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0006550525
- ISBN 13
- 9780006550525
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Flamingo. Good+. 2004. Reprint; Fifth Printing. Paperback. 129 X 21 X 198 millimeters . Some reading and cover creases, some edge and shelf wear with small splits to base of sunned spine, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Fifth printing of Flamingo paperback edition, 2004. Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover illustrations by Debbie Lush. ; 352 pages; Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to lead a normal American life. For the next thirty years, Olivia endures visits from Kwan and her ghosts, who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage. But just when she cannot bear it any more, the revelations of a tragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truths hidden in Kwan's unorthodox vision of the world. .
Synopsis
"The wisest and most captivating novel tan has written." - The Boston Globe 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.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Hundred Secret Senses
- Author
- Tan, Amy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint; Fifth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0006550525
- ISBN 13
- 9780006550525
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 129 X 21 X 198 millimeters
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