An edition of The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

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An edition of The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

The hundred secret senses

  • 4.00 ·
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  • 10 Have read

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 daughter, among sisters, lovers, and 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?

In 1962, Olivia, nearly six years old, meets Kwan, her adult half sister from China, for the first time. Olivia's neglectful mother, who in pursuing a new marriage can't provide the attention her daughter needs, finds Kwan to be a handy caretaker. In the bedroom the sisters share, Kwan whispers secrets about ghosts and makes Olivia promise never to reveal them. Out of both fright and resentment, Olivia betrays her sister - with terrible consequences.

From then on she listens to Kwan's stories and pretends to believe them. Thirty years pass, and Olivia is about to divorce her husband, Simon, after a lengthy marriage. She is certain he has never given up his love for a former girlfriend, who died years before. Kwan and her ghosts believe otherwise, and they provide Olivia with ceaseless advice and pleas to reconsider. But Olivia has long since dismissed the ghosts of her childhood and the wacky counsel of her sister.

Just as Kwan anticipates, fate intervenes and takes her, Olivia, and Simon to China. In the village where Kwan grew up, Olivia confronts the tangible evidence of what she has always presumed to be her sister's fantasy of the past. And there, she finds the proof that love endures, and comes to understand what logic ignores, what you can know only through the hundred secret senses.

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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Pages
358

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The hundred secret senses
1996, Thorndike Press, Chivers Press
in English
Cover of: The hundred secret senses
The hundred secret senses
1996, Ivy Books
in English - 1st Ballantine books domestic ed.
Cover of: The hundred secret senses
The hundred secret senses
1996, Ivy Books
in English - 1st Ballantine books domestic ed.
Cover of: De honderd geheime zintuigen
De honderd geheime zintuigen
1996, Bakker
in Dutch
Cover of: The hundred secret senses
The hundred secret senses
1996, Ivy Books
in English - 1st Ballantine books domestic ed.
Cover of: Los cien sentidos secretos
Los cien sentidos secretos
1996, Grijalbo
in Spanish
Cover of: The hundred secret senses
The hundred secret senses
1996, Ivy Books
in English - 1st Ballantine books domestic ed.
Cover of: The hundred secret senses
The hundred secret senses
1995, G.P. Putnam's Sons
in English
Cover of: The hundred secret senses.
The hundred secret senses.
1995, G.P. Putnam's Sons
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3570.A48 H86 1995, PS3570.A48H86 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
358 p. ;
Number of pages
358

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL795918M
Internet Archive
hundredsecretsen00tana_0
ISBN 10
0399141146
LCCN
95031791
OCLC/WorldCat
32894903
Library Thing
1091854
Goodreads
913371

Work Description

Een vrouw van half-Chinese afkomst vindt haar wortels via haar Chinese halfzusje en een tocht naar China en het dorp van haar vader.

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