Das neue Buch der Autorin von"The Kitchen God's Wife"and"A Hundred Secret Senses". Wieder beschreibt sie hier das Leben der chinesischen Einwanderer in Amerika, wobei ihr besonderes Interesse immer den Frauen gilt. Phantasievoll und einfühlsam erzählt sie eine Geschichte über Freundschaft, Hoffnung und Liebe, und versucht dabei eine Brücke zwischen den Kulturen zu bauen.

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 is the author of The Joy Luck Club ! The Kitchen God's Wife ! The Hundred Secret Senses ! and two children's books! The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat ! which has been adapted as Sagwa ! a PBS series for children. Tan was also the co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club ! and her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Tan! who has a master's degree in linguistics from San Jose University! has worked as a language specialist to programs serving children with developmental disabilities. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York. Klappentext "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 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 bra...

8220;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

Autorentext
Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, *and two children’s books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which has been adapted as Sagwa, a PBS series for children. Tan was also the co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club*, and her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Tan, who has a master’s degree in linguistics from San Jose University, has worked as a language specialist to programs serving children with developmental disabilities. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

Klappentext

"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

Zusammenfassung
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond” (People) from the renowned author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles
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“No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer**

Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother’s tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed.

Transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart, Ruth learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World; and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Within the calligraphied pages awaits the truth about a mother’s heart, secrets she cannot tell her daughter, yet hopes she will never forget. . . .

Conjuring the pain of broken dreams and the power of myths, The Bonesetter’s Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, and its most profound hopes.

Leseprobe
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 …