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The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan.
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.
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- 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elkford Public Library | FC TAN (Text) | 35170000311928 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A Chinese immigrant who is convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths, thus prompting a series of comic misunderstandings - Baker & Taylor
A Chinese immigrant convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's secrets, thus prompting a series of misunderstandings. By the author ofThe Joy Luck Club. Reprint. - Random House, Inc.
"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
