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020 _a9781408822685
041 _aeng
082 _220
_a813.54/
_bSEE
100 _aSee, Lisa
_eauthor
245 _aSnow flower and the secret fan
_cLisa See
260 _aLondon
_bBloomsbury
_c2011
300 _a340
_bSoft Cover
500 _aLily 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 in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication
650 _afiction
999 _c26119
_d26119