The Hundred Secret Senses
Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of southern China, this is the story of a young American woman's pragmatism, shaken and soothed by Chinese ghosts she swears she doesn't believe in. From the acclaimed author of The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife.
Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of southern China, this is the story of a young American woman's pragmatism, shaken and soothed by Chinese ghosts she swears she doesn't believe in. From the acclaimed author of The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375701528 (0375701524)
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 358
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
China
It’s been so long since I read Amy Tan’s vThe Hundred Secret Senses that all I could remember about it was that a) I really liked it, b) there was reincarnation, and c) hundred-year-old duck eggs somehow played a role in the plot. I needed a good book to read today, since the last two books I read w...
Usually I'm a big Amy Tan fan but this book was a huge miss with me. While the stylist writing was occasionally a reason, it was more so due to the relationship(or lack thereof) between Olivia and Kwan. Olivia treated Kwan horribly. While I understand that accepting the fact that your father has ...
I liked this book and waffled over giving it three or a four stars. I definitely liked it enough to get through it quickly. The characters are interesting as well -- Kwan is a hoot -- but I found the narrative a bit long-winded at times and a bit hard to follow on occasion, most often when Kwan wa...
I couldn't get into this one...I read the first quarter of the book and decided to stop.
I didn't like this as much as The Joy Luck Club or The Kitchen God's Wife, both of which I loved. I don't know why.
8 years ago
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