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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Published: 2012-03-06

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a 2005 novel by Lisa See set in nineteenth century China. In her introduction to the novel, See writes that Lily, the narrator, was born in 1823 - "the third year of Emperor Daoguang's reign". The novel begins in 1903, when...

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

by Lisa See

Published: 2009-05-26

Paperback: 288 pages

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Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and live...

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Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - A Novel

by Lisa See

Published: 2005-01-01

Paperback: 265 pages

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan : A Novel

by Lisa See

Published: 2005-06-28

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness.In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived...

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel

by Lisa See

Published: 2006-02-21

Paperback: 288 pages

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In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, ?old same,? in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she's painted a poem in nu shu,...

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Snow In April

by Rosamunde Pilcher

Published: 1997-01-15

Mass Market Paperback: 245 pages

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When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A wor...

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Snow in August

by Pete Hamill

Published: 1998-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refugee of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short supply in modern Brooklyn-a...

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Snow in August: Play by Gao Xingjian

by Gao Xingjian

Published: 2004-10-06

Paperback: 88 pages

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From Gao Xingjian, a winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, comes a "major drama about life." Snow in August is based on the life of Huineng (AD 633-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. Packed with the myriad sights and sounds of both the Eastern and Wes...

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The Snow Spider (Magician Trilogy)

by Jenny Nimmo

Published: 2006-09-01

Hardcover: 160 pages

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On Gwyn's 9th birthday, his grandmother tells him he may be a magician, like his Welsh ancestors. She gives him five gifts to help him--a brooch, a piece of dried seaweed, a tin whistle, a scarf, and a broken toy horse. One blustery day, unsure what to do with his newfound magic, Gwyn throws the brooch...

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The Snow Spider

by Jenny Nimmo

Published: 1991-01

Paperback: 136 pages

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Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his tenth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.