false <![CDATA[The Hundred Secret Senses]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177275076m/690866.jpg 690866 38 "THE WISEST AND MOST CAPTIVATING NOVEL TAN HAS WRITTEN."--The Boston Sunday Globe<br>"TRULY MAGICAL . . . UNFORGETTABLE . . . The first-person narrator is Olivia Laguni, and her unrelenting nemesis from childhood on is her half-sister, Kwan Li. . . . It is Kwan's haunting predictions, her implementation of the secret senses, and her linking of the present with the past that cause this novel to shimmer with meaning--and to leave it in the readers mind when the book has long been finished."<br>--The San Diego Tribune<br>"HER MOST POLISHED WORK . . . Tan is a wonderful storyteller, and the story's many strands--Olivia's childhood, her courtship and marriage, Kwan's ghost stories and village tales--propel the work to its climactic but bittersweet end." --USA Today<br>"TAN HAS ONCE MORE PRODUCED A NOVEL WONDERFULLY LIKE A HOLOGRAM: turn it this way and find Chinese-Americans shopping and arguing in San Francisco; turn it that way and the Chinese of Changmian village in 1864 are fleeing into the hills to hide from the rampaging Manchus. . . . THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES doesn't simply return to a world but burrows more deeply into it, following new trails to fresh revelations.<br> --Newsweek 747996 1995 The Hundred Secret Senses total:7450|5:1812|4:3199|3:2040|2:325|1:74| 7450 28700 8950 441 5 4 false false Sat Nov 08 20:33:15 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 10:26:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 true true Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 13:19:10 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 13:45:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 16:58:54 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 18:09:59 -0700 2008 The Hundred Secret Senses - the Kindle version - and dived into it as soon as I could turn my electronic devices back on.

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Tan takes her time introducing us to the characters and their back stories, spending the first half of the novel setting up for the second half. But you don't really notice! Yes, the pacing is slower, bu...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 30 20:19:52 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 20:34:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 09:19:36 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 12:59:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Oct 28 00:57:17 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 01:08:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 03:31:45 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 04:44:01 -0700 2007
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