LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors …
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LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing and contradictory things. Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother, and while tending to her discovers the story LuLing wrote in Chinese, of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart. LuLing tells of the secrets passed along by her mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined and where Peking Man was discovered; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World, where Precious Auntie's bones lie, and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Like layers of sediment being removed, each page unfolds into an even greater mystery: Who was Precious Auntie, whose suicide changed the path of LuLing's life? Set in contemporary San Francisco and pre-war China, ‘The Bonesetter’s Daughter’ is an excavation of the human spirit. With great warmth and humour, Amy Tan gives us a mesmerising story of a mother and daughter discovering together that what they share in their bones through history and heredity is priceless beyond measure.
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Hardcover, 420 pages
English language
Published Sept. 8, 2002 by Ballantine Books.
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Hija del curandero
mass market paperback, 432 pages
Spanish language
Published Oct. 15, 2002 by Plaza y Janes.
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- 978-1-4000-0287-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 51044437
Les Fantômes de Luling
Paperback, 362 pages
French language
Published March 20, 2003 by Robert Laffont.
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- 319909281
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Paperback, 400 pages
English language
Published Feb. 4, 2003 by Ballantine Books.
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Das Tuschezeichen.
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Published April 1, 2003 by Goldmann.
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- 978-3-442-31060-9Copied ISBN!
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
Paperback, 339 pages
Published June 30, 2004 by Harper Perennial, Harpercollins Pub Ltd.
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Hija Del Curandero/ The Bonesetter's Daughter
Hardcover, 428 pages
Spanish language
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Jie gu shi de nü er
Paperback, 387 pages
Chinese language
Published Sept. 8, 2002 by Shi bao wen hua.
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La Hija Del Curandero / The Bonesetter's Daughter
Hardcover, 430 pages
Spanish language
Published March 8, 2002 by Plaza & Janes Editories Sa.
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Das Tuschezeichen.
Hardcover, 446 pages
Published Aug. 1, 2001 by Goldmann.
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La Hija Del Curandero / the Bonesetter's Daughter
Paperback
Spanish language
Published Oct. 8, 2001 by Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A..
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- 48378218
La Hija del Curandero
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Spanish language
Published Sept. 7, 2005 by Debolsillo.
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The bonesetter's daughter
353 pages
English language
Published Sept. 8, 2001 by G.P. Putnam's.
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- 978-0-399-14643-5Copied ISBN!
Das Tuschezeichen
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Published Sept. 16, 2003 by Goldmann Verlag.
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The bonesetter's daughter
567 pages
English language
Published Sept. 8, 2001 by Thorndike Press, Chivers Press.
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