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A carregar... Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel (original 2005; edição 2009)por Lisa See
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This was a lot closer to the long Chinese tales of friendship I enjoy like her later books compared to the more contemporary Chinese Dolls I just read. ( ) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan has some really interesting historical detail about women's lives in 19th century China. As children, Lily and Snow Flower are tied together as laotong, lifelong friends. There are similarities in this type of match to a marriage. They are also both taught nu shu, which is a written language used exclusively by Chinese women. I was interested to learn about all of these cultural details of 19th century China, which seemed well-researched. At the same time, I didn't really connect to either of these main characters. I think that the author intended the whole novel to end up reading like one of the didactic tales common in the era, but I think that authorial decision also kept the characters feeling a bit more like a means to an end in teaching a lesson rather than human beings. I believe this was Lisa See's first standalone novel after a mystery series she wrote. I read one of her later novels recently and felt it was much better written than this one. I think she has matured as an author and while this early novel has interesting detail and a good story, she's gotten better at adding in well-rounded characters in her later writing. I want a laotong! We follow Lily and her laotong, or "old same" (lifelong friendship match), from childhood through their adult, married, childbearing years. The author was very detail-oriented when describing the culture, including footbinding (ouch!), wedding traditions, and the hierarchy of relationships within a family. I was quite impressed with how See managed to fit so much story into a relatively short (under 300 pages) book. There were several twists that I wasn't expecting, which is something I love in a book! I think this would make for great discussion at a book club. Note: There is some sexual content in this book, which is why I just can't rate it higher than 4 stars. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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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"). 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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