The Joy Luck Club
Title:
The Joy Luck Club
Author:
Tan, Amy.
ISBN:
9780143038092
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
Physical Description:
288 p. ; 21 cm
Contents:
Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies.
Abstract:
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.
Geographic Term:
Subject:
Women -- Societies and clubs -- Fiction. |
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction. |
Chinese American women -- Fiction. |
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction. |
Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction. |
Female friendship -- Fiction. |
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction. |
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction. |
Psychological fiction. |
Domestic fiction. |
Summary:
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.