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The bonesetter's daughter, (electronic resource e-audio)

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A stunning reissue of a bestselling, classic novel from the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Hundred Secret Senses. LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing and contradictory things. Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother, and while tending to her discovers the story LuLing wrote in Chinese, of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart. LuLing tells of the secrets passed along by her mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined and where Peking Man was discovered; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World, where Precious Auntie's bones lie, and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Like layers of sediment being removed, each page unfolds into an even greater mystery: Who was Precious Auntie, whose suicide changed the path of LuLing's life? Set in contemporary San Francisco and pre-war China, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit. With great warmth and humour, Any Tan gives us a mesmerising story of a mother and daughter discovering together that what they share in their bones through history and heredity is priceless beyond measure
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The bonesetter's daughter
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The bonesetter's daughter
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eng
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A stunning reissue of a bestselling, classic novel from the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Hundred Secret Senses. LuLing Young is now in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with. LuLing can only look on, helpless: her prickly relationship with her daughter does not make it easy to discuss such matters. In turn, Ruth has begun to suspect that something is wrong with her mother: she says so many confusing and contradictory things. Ruth decides to move in with her ailing mother, and while tending to her discovers the story LuLing wrote in Chinese, of her tumultuous life growing up in a remote mountain village known as Immortal Heart. LuLing tells of the secrets passed along by her mute nursemaid, Precious Auntie; of a cave where dragon bones are mined and where Peking Man was discovered; of the crumbling ravine known as the End of the World, where Precious Auntie's bones lie, and of the curse that LuLing believes she released through betrayal. Like layers of sediment being removed, each page unfolds into an even greater mystery: Who was Precious Auntie, whose suicide changed the path of LuLing's life? Set in contemporary San Francisco and pre-war China, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit. With great warmth and humour, Any Tan gives us a mesmerising story of a mother and daughter discovering together that what they share in their bones through history and heredity is priceless beyond measure
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Midwest
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1952-
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Tan, Amy
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fiction
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Read by Lorelei King and Pik-Sen Lim
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  • King, Lorelei
  • Lim, Pik-sen
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  • Chinese
  • Chinese American families
  • Chinese American women
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Women immigrants
  • Women
  • Families
  • Talking books
  • China
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adult
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The bonesetter's daughter, (electronic resource e-audio)
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https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11672820
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spoken word
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rdacontent
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Abridged.
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1 online resource (1 audio file (180 min.))
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  • online
  • electronic
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  • 9780007360291 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
  • 0007360290 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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digital.
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11672820
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MWT11672820
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sound
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digital recording
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other
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(MWT)MWT11672820
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Label
The bonesetter's daughter, (electronic resource e-audio)
Link
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11672820
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Carrier category
  • other
  • online resource
Carrier category code
  • sz
  • cr
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  • rdacarrier
  • rdacarrier
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not applicable
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unknown
Content category
spoken word
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  • spw
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rdacontent
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  • not applicable
  • unknown
Edition
Abridged.
Extent
1 online resource (1 audio file (180 min.))
File format
unknown
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Digital content provided by hoopla
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
not applicable
Kind of material
unknown
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
  • audio
  • computer
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia
  • rdamedia
Media type code
  • s
  • c
Other control number
  • 9780007360291 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
  • 0007360290 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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digital.
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11672820
Publisher number
MWT11672820
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unknown
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access
Sound
sound
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
Speed
other
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(MWT)MWT11672820
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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not applicable
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not applicable

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