![]() ![]() If you would like more details please contact us or visit us in store.ġ00% of profits raised from the sale of our goods will assist Fair Trade and Gift Shop in helping the many charities we support that make lasting change in the lives of disadvantaged people. This item is second-hand and is sold as is. 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. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia's sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes."Įven 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. Hundred Secret Senses from the standpoint of a magic-realistic tradition. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. Amy Tan had very few precedents in the Asan American literary tradition. ![]() Her most polished workTan is a wonderful story-teller, and the storys. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. Amy Tans latest effort unfolds a series of family secrets that questions the connection between fate, beliefs, and hopes, memory and imagination, and the. Acclaim for Amy Tans Hundred Secret Senses. The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. ![]()
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