Lisa See

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A murder investigation at a toy factory forces a detective to confront her own morality in this “immediate, haunting, and exquisitely rendered” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. “See...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this stunning historical novel, the celebrated author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan presents “a heartwarming love story of heroic love between a mother and daughter” (Bookreporter) during revolutionary-era China. “Astonishing . . . one of those...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD A “haunting, magical, and absolutely impossible to forget” (The Boston Globe) novel about the unique friendship between two women in nineteenth-century China, from the acclaimed author of Shanghai Girls “A marvel of imagination...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”—The New York Times Book Review “Superb . . . This emotional, informative, and brilliant page-turner resonates with resilience and humanity.”—The Washington Post (Best...

LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER The acclaimed author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan combines ancient myth with contemporary anxieties of religious fanaticism and terrorism to tell “an absorbing story” (The San Diego Union-Tribune) of love, betrayal, history, ecology, greed—and gory...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Chinese family becomes enmeshed in a dramatic story, uncovers past secrets and tragedies, and learns that love can transcend death in this “engrossing [and] thought-provoking meditation on what it means to be human” (People, Critic’s Choice) from the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Two Chinese sisters, sold as wives to American merchants, must adapt to a strange new country in this “powerful” (The Washington Post) historical novel from the acclaimed author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. “A gifted...

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret.” For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD A “haunting, magical, and absolutely impossible to forget” (The Boston Globe) novel about the unique friendship between two women in nineteenth-century China, from the acclaimed author of Shanghai Girls “A marvel of imagination...

Lilie und Schneerose wachsen im frühen 19. Jahrhunderts in der chinesischen Provinz auf. Sie schreiben sich in der Geheimschrift der Frauen...

Kun Yhdysvaltain suurlähettilään ja kiinalaisen huippupoliitikon pojat löytyvät kuolleina, epäillään molemmissa maissa, että...

In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening. Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's...

Ottuagenaria e tormentata dai rimorsi, Giglio Bianco ripensa al proprio passato e a Fiore di Neve, l'amica scomparsa da molti anni che ha avuto un ruolo cruciale nella sua esistenza. Poiché le rimane solo il dono del tempo, vuole onorarlo raccontando la storia della sua laotong - la compagna di...

Si l'on en croit Confucius " une femme instruite est une femme inutile ". Pourtant, Yunxian Tan, née dans une famille des plus éminentes est élevée par ses grands-parents justement pour être utile. Sa grand-mère est l'une des rares femmes médecins en Chine, et elle lui enseigne les quatre...