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The Hundred Secret Senses

A Novel

A Novel

By Amy Tan

By Amy Tan

By Amy Tan

By Amy Tan

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Paperback $19.00

Dec 28, 2010 | ISBN 9780143119081

Ebook $14.99

Oct 17, 1995 | ISBN 9781101202944

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    About The Hundred Secret Senses

    The “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

    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.

    About The Hundred Secret Senses

    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 Olivia’s family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia’s 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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    Also by Amy Tan

    The Backyard Bird Chronicles
    The Joy Luck Club
    Saving Fish from Drowning
    The Kitchen God's Wife
    Saving Fish from Drowning
    See all books by Amy Tan

    About Amy Tan

    AMY TAN is the author of several novels, including The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. She is a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club and is on the board of American Bird Conservancy. She… More about Amy Tan

    About Amy Tan

    AMY TAN is the author of several novels, including The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. She is a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club and is on the board of American Bird Conservancy. She… More about Amy Tan

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Dec 28, 2010 | 368 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780143119081

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Oct 17, 1995 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9781101202944

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