Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

A Novel

Paperback, 288 pages

English language

Published Feb. 21, 2006 by Random House Trade Paperbacks.

ISBN:
978-0-8129-6806-4
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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer in Yongming County, and to her family is just another mouth to feed until she can be married off. But when she is six years old she is brought before the ambitious local matchmaker who delivers some startling news: Lily is no ordinary girl. If they are bound properly, her feet will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinarily good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family.But first she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend. A girl will be chosen as her 'old-same' which is a relationship almost akin to marriage and treated with as much seriousness.Her 'old-same', Snow Flower, is a …

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Subjects

  • Popular American Fiction
  • Women
  • General
  • Asian American Novel And Short Story
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Historical
  • Reminiscing in old age
  • Psychological
  • Historical - General
  • Fiction / General
  • Female friendship
  • China