Lisa See

Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who begin working with their village’s all-female diving collective. As the girls take up positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger....

The thrilling new novel from number-one New York Times best-selling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted....

A novel about two sisters, two cultures, and the struggle to find a new life in America while bound to the old, Shanghai Girls is a fresh, fascinating adventure....

Lily is haunted by memories of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence....

Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country....

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family....

In the depths of a Beijing winter, during the waning days of Deng Xiaoping's reign, the US ambassador's son is found dead - his body entombed in a frozen lake....

It's 1938 in San Francisco: A world's fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities....

La isla de las mujeres del mar es una bella e introspectiva novela sobre los lazos de amistad de dos jóvenes hanenyeo - mujeres buceadoras de la isla surcoreana de Jeju, cuya forma de vida ha sido reconocida por la Unesco como patrimonio de la humanidad....

While David Stark is asked to open a law office in Beijing, his lover, detective Liu Hulan, receives an urgent message imploring her to investigate the death of her daughter....

When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband are dispatched to investigate...

For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings....

Lily is haunted by memories of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence....

code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed....

Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother....

Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears....

For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings....

Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family....

It’s 1938 in San Francisco: a world’s fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities....

Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China....