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"THE WISEST AND MOST CAPTIVATING NOVEL TAN HAS WRITTEN."The Boston Sunday Globe "TRULY MAGICAL . . . UNFORGETTABLE . . . The first-person narrator is Olivia Laguni, and her unrelenting nemesis from childhood on is her half-sister, Kwan Li. . . . It is Kwan''s haunting predictions, her implementation of the secret senses, and her linking of the present with the past that cause this novel to shimmer with meaningand to leave it in the readers mind when the book has long been finished." The San Diego Tribune "HER MOST POLISHED WORK . . . Tan is a wonderful storyteller, and the story''s many strandsOlivia''s childhood, her courtship and marriage, Kwan''s ghost stories and village talespropel the work to its climactic but bittersweet end." USA Today "TAN HAS ONCE MORE PRODUCED A NOVEL WONDERFULLY LIKE A HOLOGRAM: turn it this way and find Chinese-Americans shopping and arguing in San Francisco; turn it that way and the Chinese of Changmian village in 1864 are fleeing into the hills to hide from the rampaging Manchus. . . . THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES doesn''t simply return to a world but burrows more deeply into it, following new trails to fresh revelations.

«¿Quién es la Dama de la Luna ?», pregunta la niña. «La señora Chang-O. Vive en la luna y esta noche es la única ocasión en que puedes verla y conseguir que se cumpla un deseo secreto», le responden.

" Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today." NEWSWEEK Winnie and Helen have kept each other''s worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie''s story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events tha led to Winnie''s coming to America in 1949. " The kind of novel that can be read and reread with enormous pleasure." CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Olivia cuenta la transformación que sufrió su vida cuando irrumpió en ella Kwan, la hermanastra que su padre había abandonado en China cuando emigró a Estados Unidos en la época de la revolución comunista. Kwan, posee los misteriosos "ojos yin" que le dan poderes para revivir, e incluso reencarnar, fantasmas reales y lengendarios del pasado, y cuenta historias que fascinan e irritan a la vez a Olivia. Pero, cuando las circunstancias conducen a las dos hermanas al pueblo natal de Kwan, la magia, el amor y la fatalidad de esas historias empiezan a adquirir relevancia y a generar imprevisibles consecuencias.

Durante más de cincuenta años Winnie y Helen ocultaron sus peores secretos. Pero cuando Helen está a punto de morir, Winnie decide contarle todo a su hija Pearl, incluso la terrible verdad que ignora la propia Helen. En su emocionante relato, Winnie mezcla tabúes sociales, historias de ancianas esposas y de guerras, el largo aprendizaje personal hasta llegar a ser algo más que la simple "esposa del Dios del Fuego".

Una emocionante historia de dos generaciones de mujeres chinas y de sus encuentros y desencuentros. Cuatro mujeres se reúnen regularmente para jugar al mag-jong y contarse historias. A partir de aquí, iran reconciliandose con sus respectivos pasados familiares y comprendiendo la inmensidad del drama humano que viven las mujeres de su pais.

Set in contemporary San Francisco and pre-war China, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an extraordinary and inspiring excavation of the human spirit. With great warmth and humour, Amy Tan gives us a mesmerising story of a mother and daughter discovering together that what they share in their bones through history and heredity is priceless beyond measure.

Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's DaughterOlivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to lead a normal American life. For the next thirty years, Olivia endures visits from Kwan and her ghosts, who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage. But just when she ...