Книга: Tan Amy «The Valley of Amazement»

The Valley of Amazement

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A new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club. In fin de siecle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a virgin courtesan. Both Chinese and American, Violet moves between these cultural worlds, becoming a shrewd businesswoman who deals in seduction and illusion. But her successes belie her private turmoil. Violet's need for answers propels her on a quest of discovery: a journey to make sense of her life, to right the wrongs of the past - to find love requited. Spanning fifty years and two continents,'The Valley of Amazement'dramatises the collapse of China's imperial dynasty and the secret life of the courtesan house. Unfolding old family secrets, this novel returns readers to the compelling territory of The Joy Luck Club. With her characteristic wisdom, grace and humour, she conjures a story of the inheritance of love, its mysteries and betrayals, and its illusions and truths.

Издательство: "HarperCollins Publishers" (2014)

Tan, Amy

▪ American author
in full  Amy Ruth Tan 
born Feb. 19, 1952, Oakland, Calif., U.S.
 
 American author of novels about Chinese American women and the immigrant experience.

      Tan grew up in California and in Switzerland and studied English and linguistics at San Jose State University (B.A., 1973; M.A., 1974) and the University of California, Berkeley. She was a highly successful freelance business writer in 1987 when she took her Chinese immigrant mother to revisit China. There Tan, for the first time, met two of her half sisters, a journey and a meeting that inspired part of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989; film 1993). The novel relates the experiences of four Chinese mothers, their Chinese American daughters, and the struggles of the two disparate cultures and generations to relate to each other.

      Her second novel, The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), was inspired by her mother's history; it concerns a Chinese mother who accepts American ways clumsily and her relationship to her thoroughly Americanized daughter. In The Hundred Secret Senses (1995), an American woman gradually learns to appreciate her Chinese half sister and the knowledge she imparts. Tan again explored the complex relationships of mothers and daughters in The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001), in which a woman cares for her mother, who is afflicted with Alzheimer disease. In Saving Fish from Drowning (2005), an idiosyncratic San Francisco art dealer narrates the story of a group of tourists traveling through China and Myanmar (Burma). Tan also published the collection of essays The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003) and the children's stories The Moon Lady (1992) and The Chinese Siamese Cat (1994; adapted as a television series in 2001).

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Источник: Tan, Amy

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