The Joy Luck Club
By: Amy Tan
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780143038092
Copyright date: 1989
Subjects: Death; Reminiscing in old age; Mothers; Chinese American women; Fiction; Loss (Psychology); Societies and clubs; Female friendship; Mothers and daughters; Women
Description: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
Table of contents: title: Feathers from a thousand Li away --; title: The twenty-six malignant gates --; title: American translation --; title: Queen mother of the western skies.