《JOY LUCK CLUB 喜福會》

by Amy Tan (Author)

Product details

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Vintage; New Ed edition (24 Jun. 1991)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0749399570

ISBN-13: 978-0749399573

Product Dimensions:12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm

Product description

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.

Review

"The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that’s impossible to read without wanting to call your mum" (Stylist)

"Pure enchantment" (Mail on Sunday)

"Honest, moving and beautifully courageous" (Alice Walker)

"In this deft and original debut, Amy Tan shows that she is both a consummate storyteller and writer whose prose manages to be emotionally charged without a trace of sentimentality" (Sunday Times)

"A brilliant first novel... Tan writes from the heart, cutting sharp edges with wit, wisdom and a gentle and delicate precision... The novel covers a remarkable spectrum and reveals the private secrets and ghosts that haunt, torment - and comfort. Completely compelling" (Time Out)

Book Description

Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters.