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Kitchen God's Wife Hardcover - 1991
by Amy Tan
Here is the eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Joy Luck Club, the powerful and moving bestseller hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as "powerful . . . full of magic". Convinced that she is dying, an elderly Chinese woman living in San Francisco decides to reveal all the confidences entrusted to her, thus beginning a series of comic misunderstandings about the secrets people keep.
Summary
"Riveting...the book rings with distinctive voices, and it's laden with those details that make readers feel that they've gained a toehold on another world." -USA TodayWinnie 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.
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- Title Kitchen God's Wife
- Author Amy Tan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 415
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Putnam Adult, New York
- Date 1991-06-17
- ISBN 9780399135781 / 0399135782
- Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 6.3 x 9.34 x 1.47 in (16.00 x 23.72 x 3.73 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 810
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, California - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-7828
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- ALA Best Books Young Adults, 01/01/1992, Page 1362
- Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/1992, Page 871
- Library Journal, 06/01/1991, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 04/12/1991, Page 0
- School Library Journal, 12/01/1991, Page 0
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