La valle delle meraviglie
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"Questa è la storia di Violet, figlia di Lulu, tenutaria di una “casa di piaceri” di lusso nella Shangai del 1905. Lulu è americana e single, mentre il padre di Violet è Lu Shing, famoso pittore erede di una ricca famiglia cinese. Violet, capricciosa e viziata, convinta che la madre non la ami abbastanza, vive nel lusso finché a 14 anni un avventuriero – amante della madre – la rapirà per venderla a un’altra casa di piaceri come “cortigiana vergine”. Violet dovrà adattarsi alla sua nuova vita con l’aiuto di Zucca Magica, ex cortigiana presso sua madre che diventa la sua assistente e unica confidente e alleata. Questa sarà solo la prima delle tante rivoluzioni che Violet subirà nel corso della sua vita, in un susseguirsi di scoperte, delusioni, cambiamenti e nuovi amori. Spaziando tra oltre 40 anni di Storia e due continenti, La valle delle meraviglie descrive anche da un nuovo punto di vista la fine dell’ultima dinastia imperiale cinese, l’avvento della Repubblica, l’esplosione degli investimenti stranieri e molto altro ancora...Amy Tan è un fenomeno editoriale internazionale da 7 milioni di copie, con soli 5 romanzi pubblicati. La valle delle meraviglie è stato atteso dai lettori per oltre 8 anni ed è subito salito ai vertici delle classifiche dei principali paesi. «Epico... La maestria di Amy Tan nel raccontarci il mondo delle cortigiane e i costumi cinesi continua a trasportarci... Questo atteso romanzo racconta la vita di donne unite dal sangue e dalla Storia, e il mistero di un dipinto». Publishers Weekly «Con La Valle delle Meraviglie Amy Tan conferma il suo magistrale talento di narratrice, insieme alla capacità di creare scenari, personaggi e intrecci memorabili». People"
- ISBN: 8867159089
- Casa Editrice: Salani
- Pagine: 720
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I am always astounded by reviewers who compare, always unfavorably, the book they have to some book that they feel should have been written. Many of the reader reviews I read here fall into that category. Taken on its own, The Valley of Amazement is a marvelous, nutritious and fulfilling novel, a ri Leggi tutto
Okay, no thank you Ms. Tan. I really don't want to know the intimate clinical details of what it was to be a prostitute in turn-of-the-century Shanghai. I don't want characters whose nearest and dearest are CONSTANTLY dying or disappearing. Tragedy upon tragedy equals yawn, in the end. You could see Leggi tutto
The Story behind the Story Amy Tan's inspiration for The Valley of Amazement originated at a visit to The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where she stumbled upon an academic book with a BW photo of courtesans - "a class of women who were influential in introducing Western popular culture to Shang Leggi tutto
1.5 "sociocultural, soft porn and soap opera" stars !! 2015 Most Disappointing Read (tie) I want to start off by saying I read two books by Amy Tan in my twenties that I liked very much. These were the Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife. They were interesting and about complicated relationship Leggi tutto
There is so much to like about this novel but ultimately it is let down by too many unlikely character motivations. The characters that Amy Tan draws for us - strong, savvy and resilient women - would simply NOT turn into nitwits overnight and make the poor decisions she depicts. If a child of yours Leggi tutto
Don’t call them prostitutes. That’s the first rule of the Shanghai courtesans in Amy Tan’s exhausting new novel, “The Valley of Amazement.” Just because these women provide sex in exchange for money, they’re not prostitutes, so don’t even think that. Deception and misperception are the stock in trade Leggi tutto
It is a testament to Tan's writing that I finished this book. I do not like spending so much time with characters I do not like or respect. Violet Minturn, the daughter of a famed American courtesan mistress in Shanghi, is someone I didn't enjoy. A spoiled brat would be a good description. Violet is Leggi tutto
I read Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club in a high school English class. While I remember little of the specific details, I do recall the mother-daughter themes that really resonated with me: family lineage and the internal identity conflicts that come with being an Asian American, the search for self-affirma Leggi tutto
I read Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses years ago and loved it; I quite enjoyed The Bonesetter's Daughter as well. I'm one of the few people on the planet who didn't much like The Joy Luck Club, but it was Tan's first novel and my reaction had more to do with the way she chose to tell the story than
Amy Tan’s derivative new novel covers the familiar themes she has recycled from her previous novels about mother-daughter relationships. Spanning 50 years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the saga takes place largely in the courtesan houses of Shanghai, when vast changes were occurring dur Leggi tutto
