num_pages: 532
description: "Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today."NEWSWEEKWinnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events tha led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949."The kind of novel that can be read and reread with enormous pleasure."CHICAGO TRIBUNE
language: English
title: The Kitchen God's Wife
titlecomplete: The Kitchen God's Wife
characters: New Aunt, Phil Brandt, Mary, Pearl Rush, Mimi Wong, Cleo, Loy Fong, Tessa Russo, Old Aunt, Huazheng "Peanut", Frank Russell, Edna Fong, Auntie Helen, Doug Cheu, Roger "Bao Bao", Uncle Henry, Wen Fu, Winnie
genres: Asia, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Asian Literature, China, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 83305
places: The United States of America
publisher: Ivy Books