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The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan.

Tan, Amy. (Author).

Summary:

For 40 years in China and San Francisco two women have kept certain confidences. Now one is convinced she is dying of a terminal illness and wants to celebrate Chinese New Year by ridding herself of hidden truths.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780804107532
  • ISBN: 9780399135781
  • ISBN: 0399135782
  • ISBN: 0679748083 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0399135782 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 080410753X
  • ISBN: 9780143038108 (trade pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 415 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Putnam ; c1991.
Subject: Chinese American women > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > United States > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Multiple sclerosis > Patients > Fiction.
Interethnic marriage > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
China > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 5 of 6 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Elkford Public Library FC TAN (Text) 35170000311928 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Saving Fish from Drowning, The Valley of Amazement, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and two children’s books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a coproducer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Saving Fish from Drowning, The Valley of Amazement, and two children’s books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a coproducer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.


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