Book Review Snow Flower And The Secret Fan. Taut and vibrant the story offers a delicately painted view of a sequestered world and provides a richly textured account of how women might understand their own lives. It is a story so mesmerizing the pages float away and the story remains clearly before us from beginning to end amy tan author of the joy luck club and the opposite of fate.
A book of musings. The author sees snow flower and the secret fan as a novel about love and regret but do you think there s also an element of atonement in it as well 9. Book reviews snow flower and the secret fan lisa see review by siobhan o leary july 2005 it is difficult to imagine how a novel that deals with the sterile formality of relationships in 19th century china could also bring to light the poignant tale of two young.
It is a story so mesmerizing the pages float away and the story remains clearly before us from beginning to end amy tan author of the joy luck club and the opposite of fate.
As the taiping rebellion 1851 64 approaches the villages around them threatening to disrupt the social order lily and snow flower s private intimacy changes stretches and is strained. In her introduction to the novel see writes that lily the narrator was born on june 5 1824 the fifth day of the sixth month of the third year of the daoguang emperor s reign. With the period detail and deep resonance of memoirs of a geisha this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships. From the creators of sparknotes.
