It was amazing, exceeded my expectations--and they were high, this being Amy Tan. I liked the main character, Violet, more than I expected to. She was sulky yet I could completely empathize with her. And incredibly I could also empathize with the mother whom she felt showed her little affection. ...
This is one of Amy Tan's best, in my opinion. Of course it involves Chinese and American and some Chinese-American characters, centered in Shanghai, starting in the late 1800s and continuing until the middle of WWII. If you haven't read one of her books, this is a good one, with lots of historica...
An exceptional talent, Amy Tan presents a delightful debut that breaks down Chinese culture and racial stereotypes Americans have long criticized. Tan has an innate ability to weave Chinese ancestry and fiction into a novel so beautifully written, she becomes a defining voice for families of Asia...
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news...Author Tan back in the swim'Fish' departs from Chinese-American tales, features Chaucer spinJenny Shank, Special to the NewsPublished October 28, 2005 at midnightAmy Tan's last book, 2003's nonfiction collection The Opposite of Fate, closed with an essay ab...
"The Bonesetter's Daughter" is the second to last Amy Tan novel I have yet to re-read, and like "Hundred Secret Senses," I realized I couldn't remember a dang thing about this book. "The Joy Luck Club" is all about switching POVs between eight characters, "The Kitchen God's Wife" is basically a s...
Pablo Picasso also had his periods: African, Blue, Cubism, Modern, Rose and Analytic cubism.And so have I. Have periods: Russian, Jewish, American, Middle-East, African, you name it.One of my favorites is Amy Tan. Amy Tan-Period. This one is lasting a few years now and most of her books have a c...
The book starts out in contemporary America, and is narrated by Pearl – a second generation Chinese emigrant, who is trying to balance her own 21st century American family life with the needs of her Chinese mother and her mother’s friends. From the third chapter on the narrating is taken ...
Despite the subtitle, I bought this book expecting it to be more of a memoir than it actually is. I think Amy Tan's main purpose in writing it was to set the record straight on a variety of topics, beginning with an inaccurate summary of her life that turned up in an edition of CliffsNotes. She d...
Esta es la entrañable historia de dos generaciones de mujeres unidas por la herencia de la sangre y las cualidades inefables del amor.La anciana LuLing comienza a escribir todo lo que recuerda de su infancia y juventud en China. Una vida azarosa de leyendas, fantasmas, maldiciones y amores. Su hi...
That was the wondrous moment when we glimpsed a pathway curving toward a storybook red cabin. By twilight, the scene had the dreamy aura of childhood imagination, the home of Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks, the Three Bears.The cabin’s front porch was just big enough for two chairs and a romantic i...
Of course not. Then learn these lessons well. While you are still a virgin courtesan, you must know all the arts of enticement and master the balance of anticipation and reticence. Your defloration won’t happen until the New Year, when you turn fifteen, and I expect you to have many ardent suitor...
For several days, Ruth could only hiss like an untended teakettle. She figured it was a virus, or perhaps allergies to a particular mold in the building.When she lost her voice again, it was on their first anniversary of living together, and Art joked that her laryngitis must be psychosomatic. Ru...