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Author |
: Amy Tan |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2001-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101202951 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101202955 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bonesetter's Daughter by : Amy Tan
A mother and daughter find what they share in their bones in this compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles. Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother’s tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed. Transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart, Ruth learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World; and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Within the calligraphied pages awaits the truth about a mother's heart, secrets she cannot tell her daughter, yet hopes she will never forget... Conjuring the pain of broken dreams and the power of myths, The Bonesetter’s Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes.
Author |
: Amy Tan |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2006-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101502730 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101502738 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Joy Luck Club by : Amy Tan
“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
Author |
: Amy Tan |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2006-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101007150 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110100715X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kitchen God's Wife by : Amy Tan
"Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." —The New York Times Book Review Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949. The Kitchen God's Wife is "a beautiful book" (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and the memoir, Where the Past Begins.
Author |
: Amy Tan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 1992-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0241132797 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780241132791 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Moon Lady by : Amy Tan
Nai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish. Suggested level: primary.
Author |
: Amy Tan |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2010-12-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143119081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143119087 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hundred Secret Senses by : Amy Tan
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.
Author |
: Ayelet Waldman |
Publisher |
: Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2004-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781402203138 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1402203136 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Daughter's Keeper by : Ayelet Waldman
How much would you sacrifice to save someone you love? When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help--her mother, Elaine. Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivia faces prosecution for a naïve connection to a drug deal and she needs Elaine more than ever. As the days count down and Olivia's future hangs in the balance, Elaine must decide just how much she is willing to give for a second chance with her daughter. With Daughter's Keeper, Ayelet Waldman has crafted a redemptive journey at once highly emotional and unbearably suspenseful, as Olivia and Elaine's struggle builds to a beautiful, heart-wrenching climax. In this luminous, gripping novel, Waldman brings to life the tensions and the tenderness that forge the unshakeable bond between parent and child. Daughter's Keeper reveals the unlimited boundaries of forgiveness and the sacrifices we make for love. "A powerhouse novel of complex emotions so compelling that when I finished the book, I started over again."--Amy Tan "In Daughter's Keeper, Ayelet Waldman shows that the power of love, even when prickling with thorns, can ultimately provide what the criminal system cannot: a hard-fought, hard-won second chance."--Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil "Waldman's passion and affection for her characters shine through."--Publishers Weekly "Waldman has written Daughter's Keeper with enough intelligence, tenderness and craft to shape outrage into a story that is both moving and enthralling." --Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity! "Ayelet Waldman has brought the war on drugs home, and has shown us just how close to home it can come....She looks past headlines and into the heart. What she finds there is hope for us all." --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
Author |
: Ken Smith |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2008-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015082688055 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fate! Luck! Chance! by : Ken Smith
Serendipity and innovative collaboration turned The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan's best-selling novel, into a pioneering opera, which debuts in 2008 at the San Francisco Opera before touring the world. In their own words, captured by Ken Smith, Amy Tan and composer Stewart Wallace describe an incredible journey that took them to China, where local village traditions, as well as singers, musicians, and designers became an integral part of the creative process. This one-of-a-kind book includes the complete libretto for the opera, written by Amy Tan.
Author |
: V. Briceland |
Publisher |
: Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0738714240 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780738714240 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Glass Maker's Daughter by : V. Briceland
Magic lies at heart of the medieval city of Cassaforte, and when the magic begins to unravel, corruption threatens the kingdom. As she battles against dark forces, Risa's untapped powers rise to the surface, leading her toward her true fate.
Author |
: J. P. Francis |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2014-07-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780698157941 |
ISBN-13 |
: 069815794X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Major's Daughter by : J. P. Francis
Like Snow Falling on Cedars, a stirring tale of wartime love April, 1944. The quiet rural village of Stark, New Hampshire is irrevocably changed by the arrival of 150 German prisoners of war. And one family, unexpectedly divided, must choose between love and country. Camp Stark is under the command of Major John Brennan, whose beautiful daughter, Collie, will serve as translator. Educated at Smith and devoted to her widowed father, Collie is immediately drawn to Private August Wahrlich, a peaceful poet jaded by war. As international conflict looms on the home front, their passion blinds them to the inevitable dangers ahead. Inspired by the little-known existence of a real World War II POW camp, The Major’s Daughter is a fresh take on the timeless theme of forbidden love.
Author |
: Pai Kit Fai |
Publisher |
: St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages |
: 500 |
Release |
: 2009-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429940603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429940603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Concubine's Daughter by : Pai Kit Fai
An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter's journey to their destiny. Lotus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running away... When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or "Beautiful One," the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her father's orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her mother's dreams of becoming a scholar—but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing, "Little Star," in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.