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Search - The Bonesetter's Daughter
Subjects:
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Asian American >> General
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Asian American >> Tan, Amy
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( T ) >> Tan, Amy
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| ISBN-13: 9780804114981 ISBN-10: 0804114986 Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication Date: 1/29/2002 Pages: 416 Book Type: Mass Market Paperback |
Book Description:
“The Bonesetter’s Daughter dramatically chronicles the tortured, devoted relationship between LuLing Young and her daughter Ruth. . . . A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery.”
–Los Angeles Times
“TAN AT HER BEST . . . Rich and hauntingly forlorn . . . The writing is so exacting and unique in its detail.”
–San Francisco Chronicle
“For Tan, the true keeper of memory is language, and so the novel is layered with stories that have been written down–by mothers for their daughters, passing along secrets that cannot be said out loud but must not be forgotten.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“AMY TAN [HAS] DONE IT AGAIN. . . . The Bonesetter’s Daughter tells a compelling tale of family relationships; it layers and stirs themes of secrets, ambiguous meanings, cultural complexity and self-identity; and it resonates with metaphor and symbol.”
–The Denver Post
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book is an excellent story about an AmeriAsian woman who has to find out about her mother's past and her history, before she truly knows who she is and can find true love and happiness. It is as good as The Joy Luck Club also written by Amy Tan.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
The Bonesetter's Daughter is a wonderful example of Amy Tan's considerable skill as a master storyteller. Here she exposes to us, layer by layer, the deeply complex relationship between Ruth Young, a ghostwriter of self-help books, and her mother, LuLing.
Realizing she is having problems with her memory long before Ruth suspects it, Luling painstakingly writes the facts of her life as best she remembers it, so that her story doesn't die with her failing memory.
The start and finish of this novel, which chronicles Ruth's struggle in coming to terms with her mother througout her life and Ruth's stumbling upon LuLing's memoirs, frame the middle section of the book, which consist of the memoirs themselves.
Bonnie S. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Amy Tan is one of my favorite authors, and her books among my favorites that I've read over and over. This was my least favorite of them all, one that I wouldn't read again. But still, a good book.
MIRAH W. from HONOLULU, HI wrote on 2/22/2007...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I really liked this book...if you like other books by Amy Tan you should give this one a try. -Mirah W.
Valerie T. from SOUTH HADLEY, MA wrote on 3/27/2006...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Classic Amy Tan; set partially in United States, partially in China. Mysticism, love, life, what more could you ask for?
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Lynda C. (Tan once again explores the prickly, dificult love between a China-born mother and her American-born daughter, complete with secrets buried decades past. I was halfway through this book when I realized I'd already read it. Is that a good sign or bad? ;-)
Alejandra C. (I got this book as a gift and initially doubted it and didn't want to read it but I'm so glad I did. It's an amazing story. It's so real that you can't help but feel whatever the characters are feeling. I really recommend it! It definetaly made me think twice about Tan's work.
All of Amy Tan's books are good. It's interesting to learn about the way other people have lived.
Pantea R. from SANTA BARBARA, CA wrote on 9/20/2007...This is an excellent novel. Very well written and one of Amy Tan's best. I really liked the character's and there were many positive elements to the book.
Catherine C. from VANCOUVER, WA wrote on 5/7/2007...Awesome! Amy Tan at her best.
Amy Tan finds the common thread in human relationships, across time and cultures..she always makes me cry
Brian K. from ARLINGTON, MA wrote on 4/22/2007...#1 national bestseller
#1 new york times besteller
Amy Tan has such a unique way of writing and because of it, the story just seems to flow. This si the story of a young girl and her nanny in China. Some great surprises and some sad revelations for the reader. Enjoy!
Kay P. from CHARLESTOWN, NH wrote on 3/27/2007...Good book, about mothers and daughters and the difficulty they have communicating.