Set in 1950s China during Mao’s brutal ’great leap forward’ this heart-rending story of a mother's love is a gripping and mesmerising read. And with the research the author has done, an education as well. This book can be read as a ’stand-alone’ but it follows on from where Shanghai Girls left off.
PRAISE FOR SNOWFLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN: 'Lisa See has written her best book yet ... Achingly beautiful Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club
'Only the best novelists can do what Lisa See has done, to bring to life not only a character but an entire culture' Arthur Golden, author of Memoir of a Geisha
PRAISE FOR PEONY IN LOVE:
'See's writing beguiled me ... A brave, brilliant book' Guardian
'A hauntingly beautiful novel of unrequited love' She
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About Lisa See
Lisa See is the author of Flower Net, The Interior and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. She lives in Los Angeles. Her new novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a mesmerising novel about two young girls growing up in feudal China.