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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
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The Kitchen God's Wife (original 1991; edition 2006)

by Amy Tan

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.
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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (1991)

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    The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (albavirtual, Elizabeth088)
    Elizabeth088: Amy Tan's first book and my personal favourite.
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This was so good, I liked it even more than Joy Luck Club, great powerful stories ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
Read 80 of the 400 pages. Couldn’t get into it. DNF ( )
  ChristineMiller47 | Nov 25, 2023 |
This is fascinating story of women during war time in China. You learn about the many ways women learn how to survive. Being resourceful and looking out for each other, are things that are needed to survive wartime. This story stayed with me for long time. ( )
  CascadeHouse | Nov 20, 2023 |
Second reading, 25 years after the first reading: sad, trauma upon trauma, very dark. What did I think of this as a teenager, I wonder. What tiny fingerprint did it leave on my impressionable brain?

The parts that take place in the present day (which is to say, 1980s San Francisco) really resonate with me. They even make me feel nostalgic for San Francisco. ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
La esposa del dios del fuego
Amy Tan
Publicado: 1991 | 402 páginas
Novela Drama

Durante más de cincuenta años Winnie y Helen ocultaron sus peores secretos. Pero, cuando Helen está a punto de morir, Winnie decide contarle todo a su hija Pearl, incluso la terrible verdad que ignora la propia Helen. Así despega esta fabulosa historia que nos conduce desde Shanghai en los años veinte, a través de una China envuelta en guerras, hasta Estados Unidos, adonde llega Winnie en 1949. Ignorando que Pearl oculta también su propio secreto, Winnie le confiesa cómo confundió el amor con el abandono de sí misma. Explica por qué la lealtad no debería confundirse con el sometimiento. Comenta qué puede ocurrir cuando la esperanza ya no es sino instinto de supervivencia. Cuenta por qué es posible, y a veces necesario, vivir una vida llena de contradicciones. En su emocionante relato, Winnie mezcla tabúes sociales, historias de ancianas esposas y de guerras, el largo aprendizaje personal hasta llegar a ser algo más que la simple «esposa del Dios del Fuego».
  libreriarofer | Jul 16, 2023 |
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Where Ms. Tan writes about contemporary Chinese-Americans, her portraits are often witty and complex. You want to know more about people like Uncle Henry Kwong, who insists on videotaping the funeral of a relative, or Roger Bao-bao, who feels ready to be one of the pallbearers because he has been "pumping iron." But the plight of a maiden victimized by an arranged marriage seems very old stuff. Amy Tan can probably do better. One hopes that she soon will.
 
Within the peculiar construction of Amy Tan's second novel is a harrowing, compelling and at times bitterly humorous tale in which an entire world unfolds in a Tolstoyan tide of event and detail.
 

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.

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