
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
A Novel
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Janet Song
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Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship.
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 19th-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 arrival 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, through famine and rebellion, they reflect upon their arranged marriages, loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their lifelong friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.
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New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, 2006
“Lisa See has written her best book yet. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is achingly beautiful, a marvel of imagination of a real and secret world that has only recently disappeared. It is a story so mesmerizing the pages float away and the story remains clearly before us from beginning to end.” –Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
“I was mesmerized by this wondrous book–the story of a secret civilization of women, who actually lived in China not long ago. . . . Magical, haunting fiction. Beautiful.” –Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Fifth Book of Peace
“Only the best novelists can do what Lisa See has done, to bring to life not only a character but an entire culture, and a sensibility so strikingly different from our own. This is an engrossing and completely convincing portrayal of a woman shaped by suffering forced upon her from her earliest years, and of the friendship that helps her to survive.” –Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
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Another great read from Lisa See
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narrator is amazing!
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i could feel this story
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Snow flower
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Top twenty of all time
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It made me wonder how much of this was historical fiction and how much was just pure fiction, but at some level I didn't care. Wonderful characters brought to life by excellent narrator.Brings the past to life
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A Time in History I Knew So Little About
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Lisa See is a highly skilled weaver of immersive, original stories. She has a rare gift with words and insights into life and human nature, a greatness that I generally only find in the works by authors of classics. So, it’s actually confusing to me…how can she write with so much authenticity and unique genius, then periodically lapse into the kind of modern pulp that I despise and avoid? Is she trying to churn out too many novels? Listening to the wrong muses intermittently? What? Why?
I don’t know. I only know that I’m really glad I skipped over the too detailed “girl on girl” chapter and finished the rest of this superb story.
But, in future reading, what can I expect from Lisa See?
More of her real genius, one hopes.
So great Except…
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