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The Joy Luck Club

Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1989]
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Novela doméstica
Psychological fiction
Novels
Fiction
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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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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