The Bonesetter's Daughter - A Novel

Zusatztext “AS COMPELLING AS TAN’S FIRST BESTSELLER THE JOY LUCK CLUB . . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer “[AN] ABSORBING TALE OF THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOND . . . THIS BOOK SING[S] WITH EMOTION AND INSIGHT.” – People “POIGNANT AND BITTERSWEET . . . A STORY OF SECRETS AND REVELATION! ESTRANGEMENT AND RECONCILIATION.” – Rocky Mountain News Informationen zum Autor Amy Tan Klappentext ""As compelling as Tan's first bestseller! The Joy Luck Club. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.” -The Philadelphia Inquirer "[An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond . . . this book sing[s] with emotion and insight.” -People Ruth Young and her widowed mother! LuLing! have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now! before she succumbs to forgetfulness! LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings! which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . . In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule! LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker! a shocking series of events are set in motion-all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother's past will forever change her perception of family! love! and forgiveness. "A strong novel! filled with idiosyncratic! sympathetic characters; haunting images; historical complexity; significant contemporary themes; and suspenseful mystery.” -Los Angeles Times "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 "Tan at her best . . . rich and hauntingly forlorn . . . The writing is so exacting and unique in its detail.” -San Francisco Chronicle TRUTH These are the things I know are true: My name is LuLing Liu Young. The names of my husbands were Pan Kai Jing and Edwin Young, both of them dead and our secrets gone with them. My daughter is Ruth Luyi Young. She was born in a Water Dragon Year and I in a Fire Dragon Year. So we are the same but for opposite reasons. I know all this, yet there is one name I cannot remember. It is there in the oldest layer of my memory, and I cannot dig it out. A hundred times I have gone over that morning when Precious Auntie wrote it down. I was only six then, but very smart. I could count. I could read. I had a memory for everything, and here is my memory of that winter morning. I was sleepy, still lying on the brick k'ang bed I shared with Precious Auntie. The flue to our little room was furthest from the stove in the common room, and the bricks beneath me had long turned cold. I felt my shoulder being shaken. When I opened my eyes, Precious Auntie began to write on a scrap of paper, then showed me what she had written. "I can't see," I complained. "It's too dark." She huffed, set the paper on the low cupboard, and motioned that I should get up. She lighted the teapot brazier, and tied a scarf over her nose and mouth when it started to smoke. She poured face-washing water into the teapot's chamber, and when it was cooked, she started our day. She scrubbed my face and ears. She parted my hair and combed my bangs. She wet down any strands that stuck out like spider legs. Then she gathered the long part of my hair into two bundles and braided them. She banded the top with red ribbon, the bottom with green. I wagged my head so that my braids swung like the happy ...

Product details

• Authors: Amy Tan
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2003
• EAN: 9780345457370
• ISBN: 978-0-345-45737-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle; Ballantine Reader's Circle
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature