The Bonesetter's Daughter
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0399146431
ISBN 13
9780399146435
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
400
Subject
Chinese American families -- Fiction. Chinese American women -- Fiction. Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Abstract
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is unearthed, "The Bonesetter's Daughter" is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. This is the story of LuLing Young, who searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief.
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Synopsis
As compelling as Tan's first bestseller, The Joy Luck Club. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.
-The Philadelphia Inquirer
An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond . . . this book sing s] with emotion and insight.
-People
Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . .
In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion-all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother's past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness.
A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters; haunting images; historical complexity; significant contemporary themes; and suspenseful mystery.
-Los Angeles Times
For Tan, the true keeper of memory is language, and so the novel is layered with stories that have been written down-by mothers for their daughters, passing along secrets that cannot be said out loud but must not be forgotten.
-The New York Times Book Review
Tan at her best . . . rich and hauntingly forlorn . . . The writing is so exacting and unique in its detail.
-San Francisco Chronicle
As compelling as Tan's first bestseller, The Joy Luck Club. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.
-The Philadelphia Inquirer
An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond . . . this book sing s] with emotion and insight.
-People
Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . .
In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion-all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother's past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness.
A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters; haunting images; historical complexity; significant contemporary themes; and suspenseful mystery.
-Los Angeles Times
For Tan, the true keeper of memory is language, and so the novel is layered with stories that have been written down-by mothers for their daughters, passing along secrets that cannot be said out loud but must not be forgotten.
-The New York Times Book Review
Tan at her best . . . rich and hauntingly forlorn . . . The writing is so exacting and unique in its detail.
-San Francisco Chronicle
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Novels
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Tan, Amy.
Bonesetter's daughter.
New York : G.P. Putnam's, b2001
(OCoLC)606520547
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Amy Tan
ISBN: 0399146431 9780399146435 0399146857 9780399146855 9780345457370 0345457374 0965164799 9780965164795 0804114986 9780804114981
OCLC Number: 44883576
Description: 353 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Amy Tan.
Number of Copies
1
