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020			_a080411109X
040			_aBSOP
041			_aEnglish
050			_aFIC _aT15h _a1995
100			_aTan, Amy
245			_aThe Hundred Secret Senses / _cAmy Tan.
264			_aNew York, USA: _bThe Random House Publishing, _c1995.
300			_a406p. ; _c17cm.
440			_aThe Hundred Secret Senses
520			_aThe 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. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, 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.
650			_aFiction, Contemporary, Asia
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