The release date for the English version of 'The Hundred Secret Senses' by
Amy Tan is Oct 1996. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
An exciting book about China and America, love and devotion, the identities we create and the real selves we find along the road, is The Hundred Secret Senses. Olivia Laguni is partly Chinese, but her unease with her patchwork family is very American. Furthermore, Olivia finds her half-sister Kwan Li to be the most humiliating member of her family. Because Kwan has distorted English, gleefully ignores Olivia's irony, and views the dead with her "yin eyes."
While Olivia delves into the specifics of her long-standing resentment against her sister—who, among other things, provides very insightful guidance—Kwan Li is narrating her own tale, transporting us to the opulence, depravity, and brutality of Manchu China. And from the conflict between her narrators, Amy Tan crafts a work that, in searing and evocative writing, tenderly, painfully, humorously, explores the past as well as the present.