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Book Description:
"Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today."
NEWSWEEK
Winnie 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.
"The kind of novel that can be read and reread with enormous pleasure."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
NEWSWEEK
Winnie 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.
"The kind of novel that can be read and reread with enormous pleasure."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Asian American >> General
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Asian American >> Tan, Amy
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( T ) >> Tan, Amy
- Literature & Fiction >> Women's Fiction >> Mothers & Children
Other Versions of this Book: Audio CD, Paperback, Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Hardcover
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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
The best book in Any Tan's collection and sorely over looked. A deep look into a life hard live by the main charactor, the mother, as she explains her life before her second marriage. A story that speaks of the charm tradition superstition and hardships in China during the second world war that not only gives insight into a culture but into a cast of charactores who are so deep and rich in personality that one could forget that they do not know them personaly.
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Brandy S. (Enjoyed this...was the first Tan book that I've read. Loved how the mother was able to tell her daughter all about her past and how she came to be the woman that she is today.
Bill M. (