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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Joy Luck Club
audio cd
English language
Published by Dove Audio/new Star+media.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7871-0017-9Copied ISBN!
El Club de La Buena Estrella
Paperback
Spanish language
Published by Tusquets.
- ISBN:
- 978-950-9779-15-0Copied ISBN!
De Vreugde- en Gelukclub (Dutch Translation of "The Joy Luck Club")
Paperback
Published 1992 by Bert Bakker.
- ISBN:
- 978-90-351-1171-4Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club.
288 pages
English language
Published 1989 by Heinemann.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-434-75606-3Copied ISBN!
The Joy Luck Club
audio cd
English language
Published by Ingram Pub Services.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59777-179-5Copied ISBN!
Joi Rakku Kurabu =
377 pages
Japanese language
Published 1990 by Kadokawa Shoten.
- ISBN:
- 978-4-04-892042-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 25626040
La Dona Del Deu De La Cuina
Paperback
Published 1998 by Muchnik Editores, S.A..
- ISBN:
- 978-84-7669-176-2Copied ISBN!
Xi fu hui
285 pages
Chinese language
Published 1999 by Zhejiang wen yi chu ban she.
- ISBN:
- 978-7-5339-1102-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 48386603
Il circolo della fortuna e della felicità
279 pages
Italian language
Published 1994 by Rizzoli.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-17-11457-8Copied ISBN!
Xi fu hui
318 pages
Chinese language
Published 1990 by Lian he wen xue chu ban she, Zong jing xiao Lian jing chu ban shi yeh gong si.
- ISBN:
- 978-957-522-005-1Copied ISBN!
Joy Luck Club Film (749351489)
unknown binding
Published by Arrow Books Ltd.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7493-5180-9Copied ISBN!
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