Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope …
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Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
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The Joy Luck Club
Paperback, 332 pages
English language
Published 1990 by Ivy Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8041-0630-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 21571021
the joy luck club
Hardcover, 288 pages
English language
Published 1989 by g.p. putman's sons.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-399-13420-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 18464018
The Joy Luck Club
332 pages
English language
Published 1990 by Ivy Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8041-0630-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 21571021
Club de la buena estrella (Debolsillo, 338/1)
mass market paperback, 368 pages
Spanish language
Published by Plaza y Janes.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4000-0237-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 52898459
The Joy Luck Club
Paperback
English language
Published by Mcgraw-Hill College.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-07-243509-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 496911634
El club de la buena estrella
Hardcover, 305 pages
Spanish language
Published 1991 by Círculo de Lectores.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-226-3626-7Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club
288 pages
English language
Published 2006 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-303809-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76273134
El club de la buena estrella/ The Joy Luck Club
Paperback, 300 pages
Spanish language
Published by Editorial Planeta.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-08-07514-1Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club
Paperback, 120 pages
German language
Published by Cornelsen & Oxford University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-464-11575-6Copied ISBN!
Joy Luck Club-O.M.
mass market paperback
English language
Published by Ivy Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8041-0642-9Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club. Text mit Materialien.
Paperback, 336 pages
German language
Published by Klett.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-12-531142-8Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club
audio cassette
English language
Published by Phoenix Audio.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59040-034-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 48378089
Il Circolo Della Fortuna E Della Felicita
Paperback
Italian language
Published by Feltrinelli.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-07-81631-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 231762021
The Joy Luck Club
Hardcover
English language
Published 2014 by Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-312484-9Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club
school & library binding
English language
Published by Tandem Library.
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- 978-0-8335-5292-1Copied ISBN!
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