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The Bonesetters Daughter' - Tan Amy
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The Bonesetters Daughter'
Type : Books
SKU: VV1483033
ISBN: 9780006550433
Pages: 339
Cover: Paperback
Year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins (HarperCollins)
Your Price: $76.96
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Краткая аннотация:
Аннотация к книге "The Bonesetter's Daughter" A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of ‘The Joy Luck Club’, ‘The Kitchen God’s Wife’ and ‘The Hundred Secret Senses’. LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing and contradictory things. Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother, and while tending to her discovers the story LuLing wrote in Chinese, of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart. LuLing tells of... |
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