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| | The Hundred Secret Senses
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| | by Amy Tan
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ZIN Product Number: 10162799
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Econo-Clad Books
ISBN: 0613032098
Release Date: Jan 5, 1990
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of southern China, this is a tale of American pragmatism shaken, and soothed, by Chinese ghosts. What proof of love do we seek between mother and daughter, among sisters, lovers, and friends? What are its boundaries and failings? Can love go beyond 'Until death do us part?' And if so, which aspects haunt us like regretful ghosts? In 1962, Olivia, nearly six years old, meets Kwan, her adult half sister from China, for the first time. Olivia's neglectful mother, who in pursuing a new marriage can't provide the attention her daughter needs, finds Kwan to be a handy caretaker. In the bedroom the sisters share, Kwan whispers secrets about ghosts and makes Olivia promise never to reveal them. Out of both fright and resentment, Olivia betrays her sister -- with terrible consequences. From then on she listens to Kwan's stories and pretends to believe them. Thirty years pass, and Olivia is about to divorce her husband, Simon, after a lengthy marriage. She is certain he has never given up his love for a former girlfriend, who died years before. Kwan and her ghosts believe otherwise, and they provide Olivia with ceaseless advice and pleas to reconsider. But Olivia has long since dismissed the ghosts of her childhood and the wacky counsel of her sister. Just as Kwan anticipates, fate intervenes and takes her, Olivia, and Simon to China. In the village where Kwan grew up, Olivia confronts the tangible evidence of what she has always presumed to be her sister's fantasy of the past. And there, she finds the proof that love endures, and comes to understand what logic ignores, what you can know only through the hundred secret senses.
| | | | Annotation
Amy Tan's latest effort unfolds a series of family secrets that questions the connection between fate, beliefs, and hopes, memory and imagination, and the natural gifts of our hundred secret senses. Years after her Chinese half-sister assails her with ghost stories set in the mysterious world of Yin, a young woman finds herself in China, looking for a way to reconcile the ghosts of her past with the dreams of her future.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
one of my faves!
-- amy, interested in asian culture, July 9, 2002
Also Recommended: any of her books
Wonderful and beautiful
-- Fanny, a book lover, November 27, 2001
Also Recommended: The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
LOVED IT!!!
-- Giselle Diaz, a painter, June 18, 2001
Also Recommended: Joy Luck Club, Eva Luna, Like Water for Chocolate, She's Come Undone
Beautifully told story
-- Milan, July 16, 2001
Also Recommended: The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife both by Amy Tan
Incredible ghost story
-- Zelda, in Dubuque Iowa, June 11, 2001
Also Recommended: The chinese novels of Pearl S. Buck, such as _Good Earth_, _Sons_, _Kinfolk_, _Dragon Seed_, _Pavilion of Women_.
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Ms. Tan has . . . injected a large dose of supernatural whimsy into her story in an effort to explore the connections between the generations. The results are decidedly mixed: a contemporary tale of familial love and resentment, nimbly evoked in Ms. Tan's guileless prose, and unfortunately overlaid by another, more sensational tale of reincarnation that undermines the reader's trust. . . -- The New York Times —Michiko Katukani
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Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Fiction - General, Fiction, Literary, United States, Fiction, Sisters, Chinese American women
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