The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Paperback, 1991)

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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.

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Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters. 'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist Discover Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. 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.

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PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780749399573
eBay Product ID (ePID)87863607

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Book TitleThe Joy Luck Club
AuthorAmy Tan
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year1991
Number of Pages384 Pages

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Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight305g

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Title_AuthorAmy Tan
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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    Read this book some time ago, want to reread it. Always remember it. An amazing book.

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  • Very moving

    It goes into the cross-cultural problems faced by immigrant Chinese parents and their first generation Chinese-American children.

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