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The Joy Luck Club

(Cambridge Literature S.)

By Amy Tan

(42)

| Paperback | 9780521485623

Book Description

『The Joy Luck Club』은 아미 탄이란 작가에 의해 쓰여진 소설로서 네명의 어머니와 그 딸들의 이야기를 들려준다. 그들의 이야기들은 가족간의 관계, 그리고 먼 이국땅에서 자신들의 정체성을 찾아가는 과정을 다양하고도 풍성한 이야기로 담아냈다. [예스24 제공]

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    Amy Tan was born in America. She grew up in America. She writes in English.

    I was born in Malaysia. I grew up in Taiwan. Mandarin is my native tongue.

    So I the reason I got this book wasn't because I wanted to read about China or the Chinese people, but because I wanted to read about ... (continue)

    Amy Tan was born in America. She grew up in America. She writes in English.

    I was born in Malaysia. I grew up in Taiwan. Mandarin is my native tongue.

    So I the reason I got this book wasn't because I wanted to read about China or the Chinese people, but because I wanted to read about Chinese people in America.

    To be fair, Amy Tan is brilliant for this part. But she instead chose to spend much more effort on the China portion of the story, something she doesn't have firsthand. And, alas, she failed as a consequence.

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    ― pthow said on Apr 9, 2007 about the School & Library Binding edition | Add your feedback

  • It was just so good I read the book twice. The language she use to describe things were so beautiful and vivid, I now use the book as reference when i write my own essay.

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    ― Ringo Kam said on Oct 17, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Required reading?

    I can't remember if this was required reading, or I was just curious after watching the movie- but I had heard so many great stories about both the book and the movie- I needed to be exposed to both!

    I'm so glad I did, and I can't wait to read more of Amy Tan's writing. She is great at weaving ... (continue)

    I can't remember if this was required reading, or I was just curious after watching the movie- but I had heard so many great stories about both the book and the movie- I needed to be exposed to both!

    I'm so glad I did, and I can't wait to read more of Amy Tan's writing. She is great at weaving a story, through different generations and the women who share them. It was very insightful into another culture that I had minimal exposure to, as I'm not Asian, or Asian-American.

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    ― Running Fox said on Sep 29, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • *** This comment contains spoilers! ***

    As a Chinese-American, I'm a little biased against books that attempt to describe the Chinese experience by Americans, of Chinese descent or otherwise. Even though some of the episodes were probably quite "authentic" - e.g., the man with the four wives and whose youngest wife swallowed opium, and t ... (continue)

    As a Chinese-American, I'm a little biased against books that attempt to describe the Chinese experience by Americans, of Chinese descent or otherwise. Even though some of the episodes were probably quite "authentic" - e.g., the man with the four wives and whose youngest wife swallowed opium, and the stereotypical Chinese mother for whom nothing was ever good enough - I couldn't help but feel that Amy Tan chose the stories based on qualities that would appear exotic to a Western reader.

    Btw, I thought the movie was much worse than the book in this respect. Some of the dialogue that attempts to imitate the syntax and tone of Chinese speech made me cringe; it doesn't even sound like what a Chinese-born speaker of English would say. (Cantonese is my native language, so I think I can speak to this.)

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    ― Lucja said on Aug 21, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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