Amy Tan

A best-seller by the author of The Joy Luck Club is told in turns by two sisters in conflict, one thoroughly Americanized and one thoroughly preoccupied with her family's origins in Manchurian China. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The Hundred Secret Senses

Chinese-American Olivia Laguni's life is changed by her nemesis and half-sister , Kwan Li, whose haunting predictions and implementation of the secret senses link their family's struggles to the challenges of their ancestors.

The hundred secret senses

Eva Ströberg

I really want to like this book, I do and I think the story is quite interesting, but I'm sometimes lost in the narration of Kwan's second life that I found it so long-winding and irrelevant to the rest of the book.

Yulande Lindsay

I'll be honest, I had seriously mixed feelings about this particular novel. First of all I was unable to warm up to the narrator, which I suppose was the point, but the problem was I was unable to warm u to the second protagonist, Kwan whom the book focuses on! I think this is because although we are told a lot about her, we still don't really know her. Frankly the most interesting parts of this books were the forays into what Kwan claims to be is her past life. Would have liked much more of that. Not a bad novel, but it failed to engage me.

The Hundred Secret Senses

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