New Releases by Amy Tan

Both Sagwa and her brother Dongwa really want to win the Harvest Festival race but Dongwa will do anything to ensure that he is crowned the fastest runner in the village.

Sagwa doesn''t want to practice her calligraphy any more now that she''s seen a bunch of acrobat cats--acrocats. She tries to be one, too, but realizes she has many other talents all her own. Full color.

A mother and daughter find what they share in their bones in this compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles. Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother’s tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed. Transported to a backwoods village known as Immortal Heart, Ruth learns of secrets passed along by a mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World; and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Within the calligraphied pages awaits the truth about a mother''s heart, secrets she cannot tell her daughter, yet hopes she will never forget... Conjuring the pain of broken dreams and the power of myths, The Bonesetter’s Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes.

Otto donne cinesi: quattro madri emigrate negli Stati Uniti negli anni quaranta che giocano a mah-jong a San Francisco e le loro quattro figlie nate in California, le cui voci si alternano e si richiamano nella ricostruzione del passato e nella ricerca di un difficile equilibrio con il presente. Un racconto che parla delle contraddizioni tra l''appartenenza a una famiglia cinese e la vita negli Stati Uniti; di rapporti conflittuali, ma anche fatti di profondo amore tra madre e figlia; delle motivazioni dei sacrifici compiuti dalle madri per trasmettere la propria esperienza e la propria forza alle figlie e delle ribellioni delle figlie ai desideri delle madri, dei loro diversi ideali, fedi, speranze.

Chinese-American Olivia Laguni has a battle of wills with her half-sister and lifelong nemesis, Kwan Li, whose haunting predictions and implementation of the secret senses link their family''s struggles to the challenges of their ancestors. Reprint.

Writers and rock music critics describe their experiences touring with the rock band they formed to raise money for charity

Ming Miao tells her kittens about the antics of one of their ancestors, Sagwa of China, that produced the unusual markings they have had for thousands of years.

"Once a year the Moon Lady will grant a wish. It is the Chinese Moon Festival and Ying-ying is very excited about seeing the Moon Lady. What should be her secret wish? Should it be to ask for a rabbit moon cake, to fly like a dragonfly, or to be one of the boys swimming from a raft? By nightfall Ying-ying knows what her wish will be--and it''s one which comes straight from the heart"--P. [4] of cover.

Nai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish.

For the adult new reader, selections from the novel on contemporary Chinese-American women.

Waverly, June, Rose und Lena, vier junge Frauen in San Francisco. Durch und durch Amerikanerinnen, die in ihrem Leben mehr Cola als Kummer geschluckt haben - im Gegensatz zu ihren Müttern. Die sind 1949 unter dramatischen Umständen vor der Roten Armee in die Vereinigten Staaten geflüchtet und noch immer chinesisch bis in die Knochen. Einmal im Monat treffen sich die zerbrechlichen alten Damen zum Mah-Jongg-Spiel, etwas, wozu ihre Töchter weder Zeit noch Lust haben. Waverly, June, Rose und Lena düsen nämlich gerade so schön auf der gesellschaftlichen Überholspur dahin. Da ist kein Platz für chinesische Mütter mit chinesischen Ansichten: daß nur eine unterwürfige Tochter eine gute Tochter ist. Von wegen! Die vier wollen schräge Sprüche, schräge Bilder und schräge Wände entwerfen und ihr eigenes Leben als Werbetexterin, Malerin, Innenarchitektin und Steuerberaterin leben. Mit der Kraft und Farbigkeit von Feuerwerkskörpern schießt Amy Tan, die als Tochter chinesischer Einwanderer in Kalifornien geboren wurde, ihre eigensinnigen Figuren in die literarische Umlaufbahn und entfacht dabei ein schillerndes Spektakel aus Mütter-Töchter-Kämpfen, Kulturkollisionen und Generationskonflikten.

Eine nach dem 2. Weltkrieg nach Amerika emigrierte Chinesin erzählt ihrer Tochter von ihrem schweren Leben. - Breit angelegter Gesellschaftsroman.