<Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 608 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 978 - 0062107312 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Valley of Amazement is a novel by Amy Tan . Like many of her works, it deals with mother - daughter relationship and is partly set in historical China . An excerpt from the novel was published independently as Rules for Virgins . </P> <P> In the first part of the story, Violet tells the story of growing up in Hidden Jade Path, a courtesan house in Shanghai that is run by her mother, an American woman named Lulu Minturn . Violet grows up unaware of her father and unsure of her mother's feelings for her . </P>

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