![]() ![]() Theirs is not, from the younger sister's perspective, an easy relationship: Kwan is eccentric, naive and annoying. ![]() Kwan, her half sister, is 12 years her senior, the product of their father's first marriage in China she appeared in Olivia's life when Olivia was still a small child. She is the child of an irresponsible American mother and a Chinese father who died when Olivia was almost 4. Olivia Bishop, a commercial photographer, is the novel's primary narrator. Tan has shifted her attention slightly, choosing this time an exploration of sisterhood. However, rather than focusing again on the mother-daughter bond, Ms. It is not surprising, then, that in her latest book, "The Hundred Secret Senses," she should offer an apparent reworking of this theme. She has conjured the tortuous lives of an older generation of women whose fate brought them from China to this country, as well as the frustration and fascination of their American-born daughters. ![]() The tremendous success of Amy Tan's two previous novels, "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Kitchen God's Wife," lay in her capacity to evoke, vividly and with subtle humor, the cultural dislocation of America's Chinese community. ![]()
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