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The Joy Luck Club

Autor Amy Tan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – mar 1989 – vârsta de la 18 ani

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In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish-and the tragic way in which it has come true.
The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember…
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780399134203
ISBN-10: 0399134204
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 159 x 237 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Notă biografică

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children’s books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which has been adapted as Sagwa, a PBS series for children. Tan was also the co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club, and her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Tan, who has a master’s degree in linguistics from San Jose University, has worked as a language specialist to programs serving children with developmental disabilities. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

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In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and 'say' stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club.

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In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40 years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club. Their stories ultimately display the double happiness that can be found in being both Chinese and American. First serials to Ladies' Home Journal, Atlantic Monthly, and San Francisco Focus.

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"Powerful as myth." —The Washington Post Book World



"Beautifully written...a jewel of a book." —The New York Times Book Review



"Powerful...full of magic...you won't be doing anything of importance until you have finished this book." —Los Angeles Times



"Wonderful...a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance." —San Francisco Chronicle

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