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Title	:	The Hundred Secret Senses
Author	:	Amy Tan
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 406 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1996 by Ivy Books (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China. Asia

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The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia's sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes."

Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister (who, among other things, is a source of infuriatingly good advice), Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China. And out of the friction between her narrators, Amy Tan creates a work that illuminates both the present and the past sweetly, sadly, hilariously, with searing and vivid prose.

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Original Title:	The Hundred Secret Senses
ISBN:	080411109X (ISBN13: 9780804111096)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1996), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (1997)

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I love Amy Tan's work, and this book was no exception. The magical realism aspect to this book was unexpected, but I enjoyed how Kwan's story of her past life played into the events happening to Olivia in the modern day. I didn't like Kwan in the beginning, but the chapters from her perspective were always interesting and I totally came around to liking her in the middle of the book. But OMG, Olivia had me so frustrated. She kept saying how calm and collected she was compared to her sister, but

Haunting and magical. Amy Tan breathes true life into these characters. I felt as though they lived with me for a week as I read this so slowly because I didn't want it to end. I laughed aloud many times, and adored the sisterly bond between Kwan and Olivia. Olivia is such a real character - imperfect, impatient, unhappy; and Kwan is goofy, good-spirited, wonderfully humorous. I loved the bonds between the characters and the realizations and nuggets of wisdom scattered throughout Tan's prose. I

Pablo Picasso also had his periods: African, Blue, Cubism, Modern, Rose and Analytic cubism.And so have I. Have periods: Russian, Jewish, American, Middle-East, African, you name it.One of my favorites is Amy Tan. Amy Tan-Period. This one is lasting a few years now and most of her books have a central theme: mothers and daughters. Amy Tan did not have a good relationship with her mother, or grandmother, for that matter. It could have been different if she had children of her own to really

The Hundred Secret Senses is one of those novels that is hard to describe, but infinitely readable. Olivia is half-Chinese, raised by her Midwestern mother after her Chinese father passes away. Her older half-sister, Kwan, came to live with them when Kwan was 18, brought to America as a way to honor her late father's wishes. Kwan claims to have yin eyes, or the ability to speak to the spirits who reside in the Yin World. The novel is told from both Olivia's and Kwan's perspectives, although

Amy Tan's novels are really special in many ways. For me reading "Joy luck club" was a comfortable means of sinking in Chinese culture, bound with familiar American environment, something to hold to, like bungee jumping, you sunk into unknown depth but still know that the rope will return you back in proper time. "The Hundred Secret Senses" seemed to me less americanized than the first Tan's novel. Every single step of characters here seems to be linked to Chinese legends, beliefs and

Olivia just wants to live her life as a mostly-American Chinese-American, so she's always resented her half-sister who won't let go of China. Kwan sees yin (ghosts) and is always interfering.While we learn about their dynamic, Kwan tells us the story of her past life in rural China in 1862.To be honest, for three-quarters of this book, I found it kinda interesting but not great. I wasn't sure I'd read the other two Tan books on my shelf, because with 200 unread books, you have to trim somewhere.

The book constantly went from the present to the past. Because of a complicated plot, it was difficult for me to keep track of the characters.