The Bonesetter's Daughter

by Amy Tan

A major new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses.

The tremendous success of Amy Tan's novels - each one an international Number One bestseller - lies in her capacity to evoke, vividly and with subtle humour, the cultural dislocation of America's Chinese community. In each of her books, she has given us wonderful stories about the tortuous lives of an older generation of women whose fate has brought them from China to the US, and also those of their culturally-confused, American-born daughters. In this new novel, Tan takes this theme once again and, with characteristic warmth, energy and invention, has produced an unforgettable tale of hope, love and friendship.

• ISBN10: 0399146431
• ISBN13: 9780399146435
• Publish Date: 19 February 2001 (first published 13 January 2001)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 11 August 2009
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

[mitabird]

3.5 stars

[wyvernfriend]

Ruth's mother is apparenly losing her mind. Her memories are slipping away from her. Ruth finds a document that tells the story of her youth and escape from China to America.

Ruth's mother LuLing was the daughter of a woman who was once beautiful until a terrible accident happened. Her family did both calligraphy and ink-making in China, until the death of LuLing's mother, their most gifted calligrapher.

Interesting and compelling, this is a story of hard choices and twists of fate.

[Eve1972]

Loved It!!