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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mass market paperback
English language
Published by Ivy Books.
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- 978-0-8041-0642-9Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club
audio cassette
English language
Published by Phoenix Audio.
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- 48378089
The Joy LuckClub.
287 pages
English language
Published 1989 by Mandarin.
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The Joy Luck Club
288 pages
English language
Published 1991 by Vintage Books.
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- 978-0-679-72768-2Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club.
287 pages
English language
Published 1990 by Minerva.
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- 978-0-7493-9068-6Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club
443 pages
English language
Published 2005 by Wheeler Pub..
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- 978-1-58724-883-2Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club
443 pages
English language
Published 1989 by Thorndike Press.
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The Joy Luck Club
English language
Published by Mcgraw-Hill College.
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- 978-0-07-243509-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 496911634
The Joy Luck Club
Hardcover
Published by Minerva.
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- 978-0-7493-8530-9Copied ISBN!
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- 60178891
El Club De La Bona Estrella
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Published 1998 by Muchnik Editores, S.A..
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- 978-84-7669-203-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 434098203
El Club De La Buena Estrella
Paperback, 150 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 1, 1990 by Tusquets.
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- 978-84-7223-163-4Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club (Thorndike Large Print)
Paperback
English language
Published by Thorndike Press.
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El club de la Buena Estrella
Paperback
Spanish language
Published by Planeta.
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- 150852318
The Joy Luck Club
[videorecording] /, 139 pages
English language
Published 2002 by Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
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