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Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Novela doméstica Psychological fiction Novels Fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tan, Amy. Joy Luck Club. New York : Putnam's, ©1989 (OCoLC)598156652 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Amy Tan |
ISBN: | 0399134204 9780399134203 0804106304 9780804106306 9780143124849 0143124846 0143038095 067972768X 9780679727682 9780143038092 |
OCLC Number: | 18464018 |
Awards: | The Great American Read. |
Description: | 288 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies. |
Responsibility: | Amy Tan. |
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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.
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