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
Mitochondrial amazement
β Scribed by van der Giezen, Mark
- Book ID
- 110033045
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 39 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1469-221X
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