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ISBN
9780007170401
Publication Year
2004
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Opposite of Fate
Item Height
198mm
Author
Amy Tan
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
280g
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelists. 'When I began writing this history, I let go of my doubts. I trusted the ghosts of my imagination. They showed me the hundred secret senses. And what I wrote is what I discovered about the endurance of love.' So writes Amy Tan at the beginning of this remarkably candid insight into her life. Tan takes us on a journey from her childhood, as a sensitive but intelligent young Chinese-American, ashamed of her parents' Chinese ways, to the present day and her position as one of the world's best-loved novelists. She describes the daily difficulties of being at once American and Chinese and yet feeling at times like she was truly neither. Most significantly, and heartbreakingly, she tells the history of her family: the grandmother who committed suicide as the only means of defiance open to her against a husband who ignored her wishes; her remarkable mother, whose first husband had her jailed when she tried to leave him; and the shocking deaths of both her father and husband when Amy was just 14. How this weight of history has brought itself to bear on the adult Amy looms large in her own story. Ghosts, chance and fate have played a part in her life, and 'The Opposite of Fate' is an insight into those ancestors, the women who 'never let me forget why these stories need to be told'.

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HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007170401
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Book Title
The Opposite of Fate
Author
Amy Tan
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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Item Weight
280g

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    • by csiduffer
      29 Sep, 2016

      Insight into how she 'fell' into writing novels

      Loved this but knew I would as I have loved all her novels. I have never come across any author who can portray the Mother-Daughter relationship quite like Amy Tan. This book is more than autobiographical and establishes how she 'fell' into writing from a love of words and of reading as a girl. She shares many traumatic experiences and how the right person would enter her life at just the right time to help her progress. Her own relationship with her Mother was often fraught but helped shape her as a person and gave her the gift of empathy, tolerance and insight. She immerses the reader in a revealing world of Chinese culture, her childhood conflict with this and growing up in the West. Recommended to Amy Tan fans and those new to her work.

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      02 Sep, 2016

      Amy Tan

      A very happy buyer, thankyou.

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