The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

by Amy Tan (Author)

Synopsis

In this novel four Chinese mothers, who left their native land behind but not their old customs, and their four American-born daughters tell their stories about living life caught between two cultures. The mothers meet up and form their own club to gossip, play mah-jong and exchange memories.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Publisher: Minerva
Published: 01 Jan 1997

ISBN 10: 0749385308
ISBN 13: 9780749385309

Author Bio
Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California in 1952, two and a half years after her parents had emigrated to the US. Though her parents had hoped that she would become a neuro-surgeon by trade and a concert pianist by hobby, instead she became an administrator of programmes for disabled children and later a reporter and editor. She visited China for the first time in 1987 and found it was just how her mother had said: 'As soon as my feet touched China, I became Chinese.' Amy Tan lives in San Francisco with her husband. The Joy Luck Club is her first novel.