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Website. www .amytan .net. Amy Ruth Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American author best known for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989), which was adapted into a 1993 film. She is also known for other novels, short story collections, children's books, and a memoir. Tan has earned a number of awards acknowledging her contributions to literary ...
PS3570.A48 J6 1989. The Joy Luck Club is a 1989 novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured similarly to a mahjong game, with four parts divided into ...
ISBN. 978-0-399-13578-1. OCLC. 23144220. The Kitchen God's Wife is the second novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan. First published in 1991, it deals extensively with Chinese-American female identity and draws on the story of her mother's life. [1]
The Bonesetter's Daughter. The Bonesetter's Daughter, published in 2001, is Amy Tan 's fourth novel. Like much of Tan's work, this book deals with the relationship between an American-born Chinese woman and her immigrant mother. The Bonesetter's Daughter is divided into two major stories. The first is about Ruth, a Chinese-American woman living ...
Fish Cheeks. " Fish Cheeks " is a 1987 one-page narrative essay by Chinese-American author Amy Tan and her first published essay. [1] The work was first published in Seventeen and covers a Christmas Eve dinner when Tan was 14 years old. [2] [3] It was subsequently published as a part of The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings.
978-0-02-788835-5. OCLC. 427452871. The Chinese Siamese Cat is a 1994 children's book by Amy Tan. It is about a mother siamese cat telling her kittens how they obtained their distinctive seal point markings .
Pages. 608. ISBN. 978-0062107312. The Valley of Amazement is a novel by Amy Tan. [1] Like many of her works, it deals with mother-daughter relationship and is partly set in historical China. [2] An excerpt from the novel was published independently as Rules for Virgins. [3]
0-399-15301-2. Saving Fish from Drowning is a 2005 novel written by Amy Tan. It is her fifth work. The book is about 12 American tourists who travel to China and Burma. [1] The novel received an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature. [2]