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The Bonesetter's Daughter

by Amy Tam
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A captivating exploration of generational bonds and secrets.

This book is a captivating exploration of the complex and layered relationship between a mother and daughter. Amy Tan skillfully weaves together the stories of LuLing, an aging Chinese immigrant, and her daughter Ruth, a struggling ghostwriter. Through the lens of their shared history and the secrets that bind them, the book explores themes of identity, family, and the power of language. With its rich storytelling and vivid characters, 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' is a heartfelt and thought-provoking read that will leave you reflecting on the deep connections we have with our loved ones.

  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2001)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Bonesetter's Daughter

by Amy Tam
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ISBN: 9780007124442
Authors: Amy Tam
Publisher: Flamingo
Date of Publication: 2005-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Historical
Goodreads rating: 3.99
(rated by 128291 readers)

Description

A major new novel from the internationally bestselling author of ‘The Joy Luck Club’, ‘The Kitchen God’s Wife’ and ‘The Hundred Secret Senses’.LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing and contradictory things.Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother, and while tending to her discovers the story LuLing wrote in Chinese, of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart. LuLing tells of the secrets passed along by her mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined and where Peking Man was discovered; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World, where Precious Auntie’s bones lie, and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal…Set in contemporary San Francisco and pre-war China, ‘The Bonesetter’s Daughter’ is an excavation of the human spirit. With great warmth and humour, Amy Tan gives us a mesmerising story of a mother and daughter discovering together that what they share in their bones through history and heredity is priceless beyond measure.
 

A captivating exploration of generational bonds and secrets.

This book is a captivating exploration of the complex and layered relationship between a mother and daughter. Amy Tan skillfully weaves together the stories of LuLing, an aging Chinese immigrant, and her daughter Ruth, a struggling ghostwriter. Through the lens of their shared history and the secrets that bind them, the book explores themes of identity, family, and the power of language. With its rich storytelling and vivid characters, 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' is a heartfelt and thought-provoking read that will leave you reflecting on the deep connections we have with our loved ones.

  • Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2001)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2003)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.