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The Hundred Secret Senses
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
by Amy Tan
 
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New York, NY: Penguin Putnam (1995)

Limited Edition. Signed.

One of 175 numbered copies signed by the author. Books are cloth-bound, signed and numbered, with printed end papers, gold stamping, and a slipcase. Fine.

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.

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