Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
A Novel
Lily is haunted by memories-of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (women's writing). Some girls were paired with laotongs, old sames, in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-58836-474-6
- EAN: 9781588364746
- Produktnummer: 15725388
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'808 KB
Über den Autor
Lisa See is the author of Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. The Organization of Chinese American Women named her the 2001 National Woman of the Year. She lives in Los Angeles.
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