Titre : | Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel / | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Lisa See | Mention d'édition : | 1st ed. | Editeur : | New York : Random House | Année de publication : | 2005 | Importance : | 258 p. | Format : | 25 cm | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-400-06028-3 | Mots-clés : | Fiction Asian Literature China | Index. décimale : | 813/.54 | Résumé : | 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, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. |
Snow flower and the secret fan : a novel / [texte imprimé] / Lisa See . - 1st ed. . - New York : Random House, 2005 . - 258 p. ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-1-400-06028-3 Mots-clés : | Fiction Asian Literature China | Index. décimale : | 813/.54 | Résumé : | 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, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. |
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