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La Hija del Curandero

Name: La Hija del Curandero
Author: Amy Tan
ISBN: 9788401014604

by Amy Tan

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Overview

Amy Tan nos brinda un excepcional relato ambientado en el San Francisco contemporáneo y en la China de la primera mitad del siglo XX, la historia de dos generaciones de mujeres unidas por la herencia de la sangre y las cualidades inefables del amor. La anciana Luling intenta retener un pasado que se desvanece en su memoria y comienza a escribir todo lo que recuerda de su infancia y juventud en China.

English Translation: Amy Tan offers an exceptional story us acclimated in San contemporary Francisco and the China of first half of century XX, the history of two generations of women united by the inheritance of the blood and the indescribable qualities of the love. The old Luling tries to retain a past that vanishes in its memory and begins to write everything what its childhood and youth in China remember of.

About the Author, Amy Tan

Amy Tan

With her acclaimed 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club and its successors, Amy Tan succeeded in revealing the Chinese-American sensibility to readers in unprecedented numbers. In mystical, winding prose, she draws the boundaries and commonalities between generations of women who are related, but born worlds apart.

Biography

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which has been adapted as Sagwa, a PBS series for children. Tan was also the co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club, and her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Tan, who has a master's degree in linguistics from San Jose University, has worked as a language specialist to programs serving children with developmental disabilities. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

Author biography courtesy of Random House, Inc.