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The kitchen god's wife [electronic resource] / Amy Tan.
The mesmerizing story a Chinese emigre mother tells her daughter.
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- ISBN: 9781101004753 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 1101004754 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 9781101007150 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 110100715X (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 9781101006559 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 1101006552 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- Physical Description: 373 p.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin, c1991.
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- Electronic reproduction. New York : Penguin USA, Inc., 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 31597 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 458 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 672 KB).
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- Requires OverDrive Media Console
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- Baker & Taylor
The mesmerizing story a Chinese emigre mother tells her daughter. - Baker & Taylor
Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman convinced that she will die soon, decides to unburden herself by divulging the secrets of those closest to her and to her suspicious, Americanized daughter. - Penguin Putnam
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 pastâincluding 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.
- Penguin Putnam
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 pastâincluding 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.
- Random House, Inc.
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 pastâincluding 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.