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Mar 26, 2009 amy tans the hundred secret senses was shortlisted for the orange prize for fiction in 1996. The hundred secret senses by amy tan, paperback barnes. Born in the us to immigrant chinese parents, amy tan failed her mothers expectations that she become a doctor and concert pianist. Olivia 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. Sisterhood as cultural difference in amy tans the hundred. Amy tan is the author of the valley of amazement, the joy luck club, the kitchen gods wife, the hundred secret senses, the bonesetters daughter, the opposite of fate, saving fish from drowning, and two childrens books, the moon lady and sagwa the chinese siamese cat. Chinese american women, fiction, chinese americans, sisters, domestic fiction, chinese american women fiction, chinese american families, sisters united states fiction.
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