Snow Flower and the Secret Fan A Novel
eBook - 2005
Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). Some girls were paired with laotongs, “old sames,” in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. With the arriva...l of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed and they become “old sames” at the tender age of seven. As the years pass,...
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Random House Publishing Group
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- English
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File Size | 4 GB |
ISBN | 9781588364746 |
Release Date | 6/28/2005 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B000FCK71U |
Release Date | 6/28/2005 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781588364746 |
Release Date | 6/28/2005 |