Lisa SEE ... Peony in Love (2007)

LISA SEE, the author of the best-selling novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), a resonant and sure-footed study of female friendship in the China of old, and a family memoir, On Golden Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), has a new novel out. It’s called Peony in Love (Random House, 2007), an absorbing foray into the Chinese afterworld, set against the colourful backdrop of 17th-century China.