Moving between the dazzling world of courtesans in turn of the century Shanghai, a remote Chinese mountain village, and the rough-hewn streets of nineteenth-century San Francisco, Amy Tan's sweeping new novel maps the lives of three generations of women connected by blood and history-and the mystery
“A Murmur of Amazement”
✍ Scribed by Marco Finetti
- Book ID
- 102222259
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0172-1526
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
How well known is the Excellence Initiative abroad, and what is its image? Following an information and advertising tour through the USA, Marco Finetti talked to Annette Schmidtmann from the DFG and Hans‐Georg Kräusslich from the cluster of excellence “Cellular Networks”
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