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Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

出版社： Simon & Schuster, Inc.

書林書號：

20232818

作者：

See, Lisa

定價：

595

會員價：

$506

ISBN：

9781501154836

出版年份：

2018

裝訂：

平裝

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《雪花秘扇》暢銷書作家鄺麗莎(Lisa See)新書《The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane》（直譯《蜂鳥道的採茶女》）

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.

In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations—until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen.

The stranger’s arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlock—conceived with a man her parents consider a poor choice—she rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city.

As Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Despite her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Across the ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Over the course of years, each searches for meaning in the study of Pu’er, the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for centuries.

A powerful story about circumstances, culture, and distance, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond of family.

鄺麗莎（Lisa See），美國作家、小說家，1955年生於法國巴黎，身上有八分之一的中國血統。她的代表作品有《Shanghai Girls上海女孩》、《Peony In Love : A Novel戀愛中的牡丹》、《Flower Net花網》、《On Gold Mountain - The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family百年金山》等。她的作品《Snow Flower And the Secret Fan雪花和秘密扇子》曾轟動一時。電影《雪花秘扇》就是根據她的這部小說改編。