The Hundred Secret Senses (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Amy Tan
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s and 1851-1864
- Setting: San Francisco and southern China
- Principal Characters: Olivia Yee Bishop, Kwan, Simon Bishop, Miss Banner, Nunumu, General Cape, Yiban Johnson
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Immigration or emigration, Sisters, Women, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, China
Olivia Yee Bishop, daughter of a Chinese father and an Anglo American mother, is a cold and unhappy woman who is separated from Simon Bishop, her husband and business partner. She agrees to a travel assignment in China at the urging of her half-sister Kwan, who wants to visit her aunt in the village of Changmian, where she grew up. Kwan did not come to the United States until long after their dying father confessed to Olivia’s mother that he had a daughter in China; upon her arrival, she was met with jealousy and fear from Olivia, twelve years her junior. Now Olivia suspects rightly...
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