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Tan, Amy Kitchen God's Wife, the
HarperCollins Publishers August 1996 0-00-654506-8 / 9780006545064 Trade Paperbac Very Good+
Pearl Louie Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperately to kee p from her mother, Winnie Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets - about her past and the confusing circumstances of Pearl's birth. Fate in tervenes in the form of Helen Kwong, Winnie's so-called sister-in-law, who believes she is dying and must unburden herself of all falsehoods before sh e flies off to heaven. But, unfortunately, the truth comes in many guises, depending on who is telling the tale . . . Thus begins a story that takes us back to Shanghai in the 1920s, through World War Ii, and the harrowing events that lead to Winnie's arrival in America in 1949. The story is one of innocence and its loss, tragedy and survival and, most of all, the endur ing qualities of hope, love and friendship.
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Tan, Amy Saving Fish from Drowning
Random House Inc. June 30, 2006 0-345-49394-X / 9780345493941 Paperback Very Good
'An exciting, funny and thought-provoking story!a masterful novel.' The Tel egraph 'One can only admire Amy Tan for striking out into unchartered artis tic lands.' Sarah Churchwell, Times Literary Supplement 'Sparkling!a very f unny book.' Metro 'Tan's compelling portrait of a drowning humanity, pain s eeks us out in our hiding places, however far we would run.' Anita Sethi, O bserver Praise for 'The Kitchen God's Wife': 'In this remarkable book Tan m anages to illuminate the nobility of friendship and the necessity of humour . Give yourself over to the world she creates.' New York Times 'Once again this wonderful novel has extended experience. There is something dizzyingly elemental about Tan's storytelling; it melds the rich simplicities of fair ytales with a delicate lyrical style.' Sunday Times 'Tan is a prodigal with her talent. She weaves a dazzling web of unfamiliar colours, smells, taste s and landscapes.' Sunday Telegraph 'Amy Tan writes with passion and humour , making East and West mutually more comprehensible.' Daily Mail Praise for 'The Bonesetter's Daughter': 'Compelling!exotic lands and the past lend th emselves to poetry. Tan turns the familiar but harrowing accounts of pre-Co mmunist Chinese women into a romantic and intriguing tale. LuLing is a clas sic Tan character, a resilient survivor who, like Olivia in "The Hundred Se cret Senses", betrays someone close to her with dire consequences.' Times L iterary Supplement 'A classic [told with] originality and humourt!this is a delicious page-turner that keeps you guessing, laughing and crying until t he end.' Sunday Express
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Tan, Amy Saving Fish From Drowning
Ballantine Books 2005 0-00-721989-X / 9780007219896 Paperback Very Good
A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, wh ere they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared,' I tell those fishes. 'I am savi ng you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet , sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is ev il to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them fo r a good price. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so I can save mor e fishes."
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Tan, Amy The Bonesetter's Daughter
Flamingo October 1, 2001 0-00-655043-6 / 9780006550433 Paperback Very Good+
A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Joy Luck C lub, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses. LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all tha t she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability t o speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters.
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Tan, Amy The Bonesetter's Daughter
Ballantine Books January 29, 200 0-8041-1498-6 / 9780804114981 Paperback Very Good
In its rich character portrayals and sensitivity to the nuances of mother-d aughter relationships, Tan's novel is the real successor to, and equal of, The Joy Luck Club. This luminous and gripping book demonstrates enhanced t enderness and wisdom, however; it carries the texture of real life and refl ects the paradoxes historical events can produce.
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Tan, Amy The Bonesetter's Daughter
Flamingo February 19, 20 0-00-710722-6 / 9780007107223 1st Edition Paperback Very Good
LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effe cts of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to wr ite down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhil e, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losi ng the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daught er does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun t o suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusi ng and contradictory things. Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother , and while tending to her discovers the story LuLing wrote in Chinese,of h er tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immorta l Heart.
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Tan, Amy The Hundred Secret Senses
Ivy Books October 30, 199 0-8041-1109-X / 9780804111096 Paperback Very Good
Olivia, the narrator of this story, was born to an American mother and a Ch inese father. She meets her 18-year-old Chinese half sister, Kwan, for the first time shortly after their father's death. Kwan adores "Libby-ah" and t ries to introduce her to her Chinese heritage through stories and memories. Olivia is embarrassed by her sibling, but finds as she matures that she ha s inadvertently absorbed much about Chinese superstitions, spirits, and rei ncarnation. Olivia explains, "My sister Kwan believes she has Yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin..." Now in her mid-30s, Olivia, a photographer, is still seeking a meaningful life. The cl imax of the story comes when she and her estranged husband Simeon, a writer , go to China on assignment with Kwan as the interpreter.
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Tan, Amy The Hundred Secret Senses
Flamingo 1996 0-00-655052-5 / 9780006550525 Paperback Very Good
A series of family secrets are unfolded that question the connections betwe en chance and fate, beliefs and hopes, memory and imagination and the natur al gifts of our 100 secret senses.
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Tan, Amy The Hundred Secret Senses
G. P. Putnam's Sons 1995 0-8041-1502-8 / 9780804115025 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, lov e and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover alo ng the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her un easiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more e mbarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled E nglish, 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.
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Tan, Amy The Kitchen God's Wife
Putnam Pub Group June 1, 1991 0-399-13578-2 / 9780399135781 1st Edition Hardcover NF/F
A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Fans of Tan's Joy Luck Club (Putnam, 1989) will love her powerful second novel. Here she creates an absorbing story about the lives of a Chinese mother and her adult American-born daughter.
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1500.00 JPY
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Tan, Amy The Opposite of Fate
Harpercollins Pub Ltd June 30, 2004 0-00-717040-8 / 9780007170401 Paperback Fine
Unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelistsWhen I began writing this history, I let go of my doubts. I trusted the ghosts of my im agination. They showed me the hundred secret senses. And what I wrote is wh at I discovered about the endurance of love. So writes Amy Tan at the begin ning of this remarkably candid insight into her life. Tan takes us on a jou rney from her childhood, as a sensitive but intelligent young Chinese Ameri can, ashamed of her parents' Chinese ways, to the present day and her posit ion as one of the world's best-loved novelists. She talks of beauty and how she was perceived as a teenager in a country where Marilyn Monroe was the ultimate sex symbol. She describes the daily difficulties of being at once American and Chinese and yet feeling at times like she was truly neither. M ost significantly, and heartbreakingly, she tells the history of her family : the grandmother who committed suicide as the only means of defiance open to her against a husband who ignored her wishes; her remarkable mother, who se first husband had her jailed when she tried to leave him; and the shocki ng deaths of both her father and husband when Amy was just 14. How this wei ght of history has brought itself to bear on the adult Amy looms large in h er own story. Ghosts, chance and fate have played a part in her life, and T he Opposite of Fate is an insight into those ancestors, the women who 'neve r let me forget why these stories need to be told. '
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Tan, Amy The Opposite of Fate
Harpercollins Pub Ltd October 31, 200 0-00-716969-8 / 9780007169696 1st Edition Hardcover F/F
A highly collectible, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. A personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelists. Over the course of her writing life, Amy Tan's essays and articles have appeared in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies, much to the delight of her fans. Here she has put together her musings on what she sees as the opposites of fate. This work should illuminate her fiction and give her readers a rare glimpse into her heart and mind. Born into a family that believed in fate, Tan has always looked for ways to make sense of the world - other than the excuse of destiny. From retelling the tales of her ancestors, to redecorating her house, and from seeing ghosts to strapping on skis, her narrative journey reflects on fate's opposites - lucky accidents, choice, memory - as well as on the comfort of accepting her past.
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