Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a story of two extraordinary women surviving in a time of strict rules and ancient customs. With the eye of a historian and the vibrancy of a true storyteller, Lisa See has written a wonderfully mesmerising novel filled with colour, fascinating detail and heartfelt drama. " Only the best novelists can do what Lisa See has done, to bring to life not only a character but an entire culture. An engrossing and completely convincing portrayal of a woman shaped by suffering and the friendship that helps her to survive " Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha. " Achingly beautiful, a marvel of imagination of a real and secret world that has only recently disappeared. It is a story so mesmerising that the pages float away and the story remains clearly before us from beginning to end " Amy Tan. " I was entranced by this wondrous book... Magical haunting fiction " Maxine Hong Kingston.