num_pages: 308
description: Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER is an excavation of the human the past, it's deepest wounds, it's most profound hopes. 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. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars and the next, mother and daughter find what they share in their bones through heredity, history, and inexpressible qualities of love.
language: English
title: The Bonesetter's Daughter
titlecomplete: The Bonesetter's Daughter
characters: Ruth Young, LuLing, Bibi Tersayang, GaoLing
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, China, Adult, Asian Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 127807
places: San Francisco, California, China
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Putnam