I started reading peony in love, lisa sees intriguing new novel, in the week that the terracotta army came to the british museum. The book treasury daily shipping from nashville, tn. Feb 19, 2008 immersed in the richness and magic of the chinese vision of the afterlife, transcending even death, peony in love explores, beautifully, the many manifestations of love. This edition contains an excerpt from lisa see s shanghai girls. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read peony in love. See continues to base her work on chinas history, and her thorough research shines here. Oct 19, 2007 lisa see, author snowflower and the secret fan, tells us a chinese ghost story and discusses her latest novel, peony in love. Snow flower takes place in rural chinese villages in the 19th century and was about poor, uneducated, boundfooted women, who lived in seclusion and longed to be heard. With too much intelligent history to be pegged a romance, peony in love is, indeed, romantic.
Jul 19, 2007 lisa sees peony in love is a novel built on research about prettily oppressed 17thcentury chinese women who yearn for literacy and freedom. The one hundred year odyssey of my chineseamerican family traces 100. Dec 08, 2007 peony in love by lisa see 304pp, bloomsbury. Peony in love by lisa see 2008, paperback for sale online. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered womens quarters of the family villa. Why this book i found it sitting on a bookshelf in my condos laundry room. Peony in love by lisa see lovesick in 17thcentury china in lisa sees romantic, suspenseful novel, a cloistered girl falls under the spell of a scandalous opera. I love all of sees books, this one is no different. Lisa see the auther of peony in love tells an amazing story about peony, a chinese teenager who was to be married. A novel random house large print 9780739327296 by see, lisa and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. Peony in love will make you ache in heart and mind for young peony and all the women of the world who want to be heard.
Peony has been educated and revels in studying the peony pavilion, a real opera published in 1598, as the. The onehundredyear odyssey of my chineseamerican family 1995, a detailed account of sees family history, and the novels flower net 1997, the interior 1999, dragon bones 2003, snow flower and the secret fan 2005, peony in love 2007 and shanghai girls 2009, which made it to the 2010 new york times. Lisa sees peony in love is a novel built on research about prettily oppressed 17thcentury chinese women who yearn for literacy and freedom. Peony in love is a ghost story and a love story set in seventeenthcentury china. Lisa see on her latest novel, peony in love youtube. Peony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy chinese nobleman. The ming dynasty fell in 1644 and the qing dynasty, led by the manchus, began. The onehundredyear odyssey of my chineseamerican family 1995, a detailed account. Lisa was a west coast correspondent for publishers weekly from 1983 until 1996 and has written for magazines including vogue, self and more. Peony in love is based on the true story of three women who were married to the same man one right after the other who together wrote the first book of its kind to have been published anywhere in the world. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Jul 08, 2007 peony in love by lisa see lovesick in 17thcentury china in lisa see s romantic, suspenseful novel, a cloistered girl falls under the spell of a scandalous opera. Peonys unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrowas lisa sees haunting new novel. Peony in love is a historical novel, in that the characters are based on real people and loosly on real events.
So begins peonys unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow, as lisa sees haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes listeners back to seventeenthcentury china. Peony in love, by lisa see, is an epic story which seeks to weave together the lives and souls of three young women during the transition from the ming dynasty to the qing dynasty. Lisa see s latest endeavor, peony in love, is destined to be as successful as her previous novel, snow flower and the secret fan. Falling in love was a lot of the chinese girls dreams when the parents shatter it by making an arrangement marriage. Author interview lisa see, author of peony in love bookpage. The research that lisa see put into this novel is formidable as always. Immersed in the richness and magic of the chinese vision of the afterlife, transcending even death, peony in love explores, beautifully, the many manifestations of love. Ultimately, lisa see s new novel addresses universal themes. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading peony in love. Jul 22, 2007 the animating premise is that of life as a shadow dance to art, in this case the celebrated opera the peony pavilion, first performed in 1598 but staged in sees novel a halfcentury later. In peony in love, the elegant and haunting followup to her extraordinarily successful novel snow flower and the secret fan 2005, author lisa see explores the true phenomenon of lovesick maidens. For young peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from the peony pavilion mirror. Yet through its cracks, peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man with hair as. Lisa see, author snowflower and the secret fan, tells us a chinese ghost story and discusses her latest novel, peony in love.
Click to read more about peony in love by lisa see. Peony in love takes place in a thriving city in the 17th century. Peony in love will make you ache in heart and mind for young peony and all the women of the world who. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Lisa sees peony in love is a novel built on research about prettily oppressed 17thcentury chinese women who yearn for literacy and. After reading the book, snow flower and the secret fan by lisa see, i wanted to read another book in that vein. Ultimately, lisa sees new novel addresses universal themes.
Her previous novel, snow flower and the secret fan, and peony in love emphasize the difficulty 19th and. This opera has a haunting effect on young girls, who long for true love in their arranged marriages. Paul pioneer press a beautiful book about love that reads like an. The book peony in love was a great spiritual adventure in the japanese culture. A novel random house large print by see, lisa and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
If critical responses to peony in love are a bit uneven, consider that they follow the breakout success of lisa sees previous novel, snow flower and the secret fan septoct 2005. I kind of hate it that she died and had to watch her love with other women. Yet even hidden from view, peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome manand is immediately overcome with emotion. In seventeenthcentury china, three women become emotionally invol. I think of peony in love as a kind of reverse mirror image of snow flower and the secret fan. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Her previous novel, snow flower and the secret fan, and peony in love emphasize the difficulty 19th and 17thcentury chinese women had in achieving freedom and identity in a society that was both male dominated and rigid in its gender expectations.