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The Bonesetter's Daughter, published in 2001, is Amy Tan's fourth novel. Like much of Tan's work, this book deals with the relationship between an American-born Chinese woman and her immigrant mother. The Bonesetter's Daughter is divided into two major stories.
The Bonesetter's Daughter was adapted into an opera, in 2008. [32] Tan's children's book, Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, was adapted into an PBS animated television show, also named Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat. [33] In May 2021, the documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir was released in the American Masters series on PBS.
The Bonesetter's Daughter is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Stewart Wallace to a libretto by Amy Tan based on her novel of the same name. It premiered on 13 September 2008 at the War Memorial Opera House of San Francisco Opera , which commissioned the work.
[3] [4] His opera The Bonesetter's Daughter is based on the novel of the same name by Amy Tan, who wrote the opera's libretto. The Bonesetter's Daughter premiered at San Francisco Opera in 2008. [5] In 2010, Wallace was in a bicycle accident that resulted in traumatic brain injury and prevented him from composing, for a five-year period. [6]
The Hundred Secret Senses is a bestselling [1] 1995 novel by Chinese-American writer Amy Tan.It was published by Putnam, [2] and was shortlisted for the 1996 Orange Prize for Fiction. [3]
The novel opens with the narrative voice of Pearl Louie Brandt, the American-born daughter of a Chinese mother and a Chinese-American father, living in San Jose, California. Pearl's mother, Winnie Louie, has called her to request that she and her family come to San Francisco, to attend the engagement party of Bao-Bao, her cousin.
The Rock Bottom Remainders, also known as the Remainders, was an American rock charity supergroup consisting of popular published writers, most of them also amateur musicians.
"A Case of Double Logic in Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter with a Comparison with Honoré de Balzac’s The Accursed Child" in The Cultural Shuttle: The United States of/in Europe, ed. by V. Béghain e M. Chénetier, VU University Press, Amsterdam, 2004, pp. 229-236, ISBN 9789053839492; Asia and the West.