description: Amy Tan is a "wonderful writer with a rare power to touch the heart." Now, in The Hundred Secret Senses, she uses her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor to conjure a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths. Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of southern China, this is a tale of American pragmatism shaken, and soothed, by Chinese ghosts. What proof of love do we seek between mother and daugher, among sisters, lovers, friends? What are its boundaries and failings? Can love go beyond "Until death do us part? And if so, which aspects haunt us like regretful ghosts?
language: English
title: The Hundred Secret Senses
titlecomplete: The Hundred Secret Senses
genres: China, Asian Literature, Historical, Asia, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 44210
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Putnam Adult