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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle
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ISBN10: 0345457374
ISBN13: 9780345457370
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Feb 4 2003
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780345457370
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Feb 4 2003
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - [An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond (People) from the renowned author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles
No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.--The Philadelphia Inquirer Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother's tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed. Transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart, Ruth learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World; and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Within the calligraphied pages awaits the truth about a mother's heart, secrets she cannot tell her daughter, yet hopes she will never forget. . . . Conjuring the pain of broken dreams and the power of myths, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, and its most profound hopes.
No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.--The Philadelphia Inquirer Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother's tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed. Transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart, Ruth learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World; and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Within the calligraphied pages awaits the truth about a mother's heart, secrets she cannot tell her daughter, yet hopes she will never forget. . . . Conjuring the pain of broken dreams and the power of myths, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, and its most profound hopes.
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