The Joy Luck Club
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The Joy Luck Club
AUTHOR:
Tan, Amy.
ISBN:
9780143038092
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
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. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.