Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

£9.99

A first novel which became a major US film. From the wealthy homes of pre-Revolutionary China to downtown San Francisco, this is the story of four mothers and their first-generation Chinese-American daughters; two generations of women struggling to come to terms with their cultural identity.

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Publish Date: 24/06/1991

Description

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.

‘Pure enchantment’ Mail on Sunday

Additional information

Weight 310 g
Dimensions 197 × 129 × 25 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

287

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

813.54 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K