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Author:

See, Lisa.

Title:

Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel / Lisa See.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

258 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Nü shu--Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Women--China--Fiction.
Married women--Fiction.
Older women--Fiction.
Footbinding--Fiction.
Childbirth--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
China--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Women--China--Fiction.
Women--China--Fiction.
Childbirth.
Domestic fiction.
Female friendship.
Footbinding.
Married women.
Nü shu.
Older women.
Reminiscing in old age.
Secrecy.
Women.
China.
Old age--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Women--Fiction.
Wives--Fiction.
Elderly women--Fiction.
Footbinding--Fiction.
Childbirth--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Summary:

An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.

ISBN:

0375435247
9780375435249
9780812968064
0812968069
0812982711
9780812982718
1408821621
9781408821626
0747583005
9780747583004
0747580669
9780747580669
9781400060283
1400060281

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56567228

LCCN:

2004059538

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny) — Copies: 11

WUPB305 -- Arnolds Park Public Library (Arnolds Park) — Copies: 3 — Kit notes: +CD

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs) — Copies: 8

UGPF911 -- Indianola Public Library (Indianola) — Copies: 10

TQPB062 -- Van Horne Public Library (Van Horne) — Copies: 11