The Hundred Secret Senses - Softcover

Amy Tan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080411109X ISBN 13: 9780804111096

Publisher: Ivy Books, 1996

Synopsis

"THE WISEST AND MOST CAPTIVATING NOVEL TAN HAS WRITTEN."--The Boston Sunday Globe
"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."
--The San Diego Tribune
"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
"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.
--Newsweek

About this title

From the Publisher:

I have to admit my first reading of this book was actually a "listening". I listened to it on audio; Amy Tan reading. She is an outstanding reader...I can still hear the characters' distinct voices and visualize scenes as vividly as if I'd "seen" the book instead of "heard" it read to me. I was inspired to read the book for myself as well as more of her novels which balance Chinese traditions with American ideas.

-Jocelyn Schmidt, Ballantine National Sales Coordinator

About the Author:

amy tan is the author of four critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novels. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a recipient of the Commonwealth Gold Award. The Joy Luck Club was also adapted into a feature film in 1994. Her subsequent novels are The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter. She lives in San Francisco and New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivy Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 080411109X
• ISBN 13: 9780804111096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416