The Valley Of Amazement
by Amy Tan
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1443410225
- ISBN 13
- 9781443410229
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HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the lavish parlours of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village-a sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity. Violet is one of the most celebrated courtesans in Shanghai, a beautiful and intelligent woman who has honed her ability to become any man's fantasy since her start as a "Virgin Courtesan" at the age of twelve. Half-Chinese and half-American, she moves effortlessly between the east and the west. But her talents belie her private struggle to understand who she really is and her search for a home in the world. Abandoned by her mother, Lucia, and uncertain of her father's identity, Violet's quest to truly love and be loved will set her on a path fraught with danger and complexity-and the loss of her own daughter. Lucia, a willful and wild American woman who was once herself the proprietress of Shanghai's most exclusive courtesan house, nurses her own secret wounds, which she first sustained when, as a teenager, she fell in love with a Chinese painter and followed him from San Francisco to Shanghai. Her search for penance and redemption will bring her to a startling reunion with Flora, Violet's daughter, and will undo all that Violet believed she knew about her mother. Spanning fifty years and two continents, The Valley of Amazement sweeps the reader along a deeply moving narrative of family secrets, the legacies of traumas, and the profound connections between mothers and daughters, returning readers to the compelling territory Tan so expertly mapped in The Joy Luck Club. With her characteristic wisdom,grace and humour, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its mysteries and senses, its illusions and truths."
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010486
- Title
- The Valley Of Amazement
- Author
- Amy Tan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1443410225
- ISBN 13
- 9781443410229
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ont
- Date Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 608
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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