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Loading... The Hundred Secret Senses (original 1995; edition 2000)by Amy Tan
Work InformationThe Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (1995)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is my first Amy Tan's novel, and I am impressed. I never thought I would really get into a novel that has shimmering ghosts as part of the theme. But I did! The interaction of the two main characters, half-sisters Olivia and Kwan, is complicated due to a host of reasons, not the least of which is Olivia's entanglement in so many personal problems. But Kwan, in an indirect way, slowly but surely disentangles them for her half-sister. Past lives, glimpses in China's history - all come into play here. Kwan's character won me over: her childlike, unabashedley frank and totally selfless personality coupled with unexpected wisdom of an aged person, the realistic ease with which Amy Tan describes Kwan as a Chinese person who finds herself in foreign to her circumstances and adjusts to them in her own way - all this, combined, leads to an unexpected and interesting denouement. i don't know how to describe this, but i feel like every time i read amy tan, i'm reading heart writing. this was so lovely and beautiful. the history and relationship she evokes here is really something special. there is this feeling of going back in time, of seeing a culture and a small town living away from the world, and there is a modern sense also. she merges these two ways of life and these sensibilities so well. this was pretty wonderful all around. "She was finally old enough to forget all she had been told to be." no reviews | add a review
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The story of two sisters, one brought up in the U.S., the other in China. The American sister is contemptuous of the other's belief in ghosts until events cause her to understand what they can do. A tale of two cultures by the author of The Kitchen God's Wife. No library descriptions found. |
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I'm not sorry I finished the book though. Kwan and her Yin eyes, the tales of the ghosts, those were enchanting. ( )