Novelist Amy Tan talks about her new novel, The Valley of Amazement, set in a Shanghai courtesan house, how she researched Chinese history, and learning how to write about sex. Amy Tan has a wicked ...

In her sixth novel, “The Valley of Amazement,” Amy Tan takes up a familiar theme from her earlier works — the mother-daughter dynamic — in a three-generation saga. Setting the novel in Shanghai, San ...

(CBS NEWS) Amy Tan, the acclaimed Oakland-born author of "The Joy Luck Club," says her new novel -- her first in eight years -- was inspired by a personal family photo. Her latest book, "The Valley of ...

Human trafficking and the sex trades are modern-day tragedies, but writer Amy Tan finds tragedy, as well as hope and redemption, in the upscale brothels of early 20th Century Shanghai. Her recent ...

Since her hugely popular fictional debut, “The Joy Luck Club” (1989), Amy Tan has devoted her career to telling the stories of Chinese and Chinese-American women — in particular mothers and daughters ...

(CBS News) Amy Tan, the acclaimed author of "The Joy Luck Club," says her new novel -- her first in eight years -- was inspired by a personal family photo. Her latest book, "The Valley of Amazement," ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In her airy, elegant apartment in SoHo in New York, Amy Tan is explaining the squirm-inducing difficulty of writing sex scenes. "I was ...

Amy Tan was shocked and baffled when she came across a picture of young women voted “The Ten Beauties of Shanghai in 1910.” “They were courtesans and five were wearing costumes identical to what my ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Telling the story of a mother-daughter relationship is always an ambitious undertaking. Amy Tan tackles the job with her usual ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Valley of Amazement, by Amy Tan, Fourth Estate, RRP£18.99/Ecco Press, RRP$29.99, 608 pages The Valley of ...