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The Joy Luck Club

By Amy Tan

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| Paperback | 9780749399573

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"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's futContinue

"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life."
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
A stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.

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  • 3 people find this helpful

    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

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    Chinese Diaspora's generational stories. It also enourages western to dream about how exoitc, "otherness" is. The bond between mother and daughter definitely moved your heart with tiny details.
    It's genuine, witty ,and touching.
    Silk, embroidery , obedient female in society and family, opi ... (continue)

    Chinese Diaspora's generational stories. It also enourages western to dream about how exoitc, "otherness" is. The bond between mother and daughter definitely moved your heart with tiny details.
    It's genuine, witty ,and touching.
    Silk, embroidery , obedient female in society and family, opium, patriarchal society, filial piety, traditional values, superstitious customs, good-fortune appearance, plenitude of wives, cruelty in food are all explicitly shown via conversation, narratives, and author's observation.

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    Gobs Chan said on Apr 14, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • 1 person find this helpful

    I teach in a Chinese girls' secondary school in Hong Kong and my students find this book incredibly moving. They come away from the book with a totally new perspective on their cultural identity, on their relationships with their mothers and on what it means to be Chinese and at the same time to be ... (continue)

    I teach in a Chinese girls' secondary school in Hong Kong and my students find this book incredibly moving. They come away from the book with a totally new perspective on their cultural identity, on their relationships with their mothers and on what it means to be Chinese and at the same time to be part of a modern, multicultural society.
    The book is an absolute must-read for Chinese teenage girls who are going through the process of forging their identities, and the ending is tear-jerking.

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    David Johncock said on Oct 9, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • Really enjoyed this introduction to the work of Amy Tan. Written in 1989, wish I had discovered this author years ago!
    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-gener ... (continue)

    Really enjoyed this introduction to the work of Amy Tan. Written in 1989, wish I had discovered this author years ago!
    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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    Lindyloumac said on Dec 4, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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