Los cien sentidos secretos (The Hundred Secret Senses)

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Mientras está a punto de divorciarse, Olivia va contándonos la transformación que sufrió su vida cuando irrumpió en ella la extraña Kwan, su hermanastra, la hija que Jack Lee, su padre, había abandonado en China cuando emigró a Estados Unidos en la época de la revolución comunista. Kwan no podrá jamás distanciarse del mundo que la vio nacer y, con sus misteriosos "ojos yin" que le dan poderes para revivir, e incluso reencarnar, fantasmas reales y legendarios del pasado, pronto aparecerá ante los demás como un ser...
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Mientras está a punto de divorciarse, Olivia va contándonos la transformación que sufrió su vida cuando irrumpió en ella la extraña Kwan, su hermanastra, la hija que Jack Lee, su padre, había abandonado en China cuando emigró a Estados Unidos en la época de la revolución comunista. Kwan no podrá jamás distanciarse del mundo que la vio nacer y, con sus misteriosos "ojos yin" que le dan poderes para revivir, e incluso reencarnar, fantasmas reales y legendarios del pasado, pronto aparecerá ante los demás como un ser algo trastornado, como fuera de la realidad. No obstante, las historias que cuenta Kwan fascinan e irritan a la vez a su hermanastra, enredándola en una espiral de sentimientos contradictorios. Pero, cuando las circunstancias conducen a las dos hermanas al pueblo natal de Kwan, en China, la magia, la violencia, el amor, y la fatalidad de esas historias empiezan a adquirir relevancia y a generar imprevisibles y peligrosas consecuencias.
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In 1962, Olivia, nearly six years old, meets Kwan, her adult half sister from China, for the first time. Olivia's neglectful mother, who in pursuing a new marriage can't provide the attention her daughter needs, finds Kwan to be a handy caretaker. In the bedroom the sisters share, Kwan whispers secrets about ghosts and makes Olivia promise never to reveal them. Out of both fright and resentment, Olivia betrays her sister -- with terrible consequences. From then on she listens to Kwan's stories and pretends to believe them. Thirty years pass, and Olivia is about to divorce her husband, Simon, after a lengthy marriage. She is certain he has never given up his love for a former girlfriend, who died years before. Kwan and her ghosts believe otherwise, and they provide Olivia with ceaseless advice and pleas to reconsider. But Olivia has long since dismissed the ghosts of her childhood and the wacky counsel of her sister. Just as Kwan anticipates, fate intervenes and takes her, Olivia, and Simon to China. In the village where Kwan grew up, Olivia confronts the tangible evidence of what she has always presumed to be her sister's fantasy of the past. And there, she finds the proof that love endures, and comes to understand what logic ignores, what you can know only through the hundred secret senses.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9788408073178
  • Publisher: Planeta Publishing Corporation
  • Publication date: 10/31/2007
  • Language: Spanish
  • Series: Colección Booket
  • Edition description: Spanish Language Edition
  • Pages: 396
  • Product dimensions: 4.90 (w) x 7.40 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Amy Tan
Amy Tan
With her acclaimed 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club and its successors, Amy Tan succeeded in revealing the Chinese-American sensibility to readers in unprecedented numbers. In mystical, winding prose, she draws the boundaries and commonalities between generations of women who are related, but born worlds apart.

Biography

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which has been adapted as Sagwa, a PBS series for children. Tan was also the co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club, and her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Tan, who has a master's degree in linguistics from San Jose University, has worked as a language specialist to programs serving children with developmental disabilities. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

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    1. Also Known As:
      En-Mai Tan
    2. Hometown:
      San Francisco, California and New York, New York
    1. Date of Birth:
      February 19, 1952
    2. Place of Birth:
      Oakland, California
    1. Education:
      B.A., San Jose State University, 1973; M.A., 1974

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