The Valley of Amazement. Amy Tan

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COPYRIGHT

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      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2013

      First published in the United States by Ecco in 2013

      Copyright © Amy Tan 2013

      Cover photograph © ZenShui/James Hardy

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © November 2013 ISBN: 9780007467242

      Version: 2014-07-15

DEDICATION

      FOR

      KATHI KAMEN GOLDMARK AND ZHENG CAO

      KINDRED SPIRITS

EPIGRAPH

       Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither,

       Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and

       elude me,

       Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess’d soul, eludes

       not,

      One’s-self, must never give way—that is the final substance—

       that out of all is sure,

       Out of politics, triumphs, battles, life, what at last finally remains?

       When shows break up what but One’s-Self is sure?

      —WALT WHITMAN, “QUICKSAND YEARS”

      CONTENTS

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Chapter 1: Hidden Jade Path

Chapter 2: The New Republic

Chapter 3: The Hall of Tranquility

Chapter 4: Etiquette for Beauties of the Boudoir

       Chapter 5: The Memory of Desire

       Chapter 6: A Singing Sparrow

       Chapter 7: A Blue Disease

       Chapter 8: The Two Mrs. Ivorys

       Chapter 9: Quicksand Years

       Chapter 10: Moon Pond Village

       Chapter 11: Heaven Mountain

       Chapter 12: The Valley of Amazement

       Chapter 13: Fata Morgana

       Chapter 14: Shanghailanders

       Chapter 15: The City at the End of the Sea

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Also by Amy Tan

       About the Publisher

CHAPTER 1

       HIDDEN JADE PATH

       Shanghai1905–1907Violet

      When I was seven, I knew exactly who I was: a thoroughly American girl in race, manners, and speech, whose mother, Lulu Minturn, was the only white woman who owned a first-class courtesan house in Shanghai.