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Author Tan, Amy.

Title The joy luck club / Amy Tan
Edition Minerva edition
Published London : Minerva, 1990
©1989

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  810.54 T1611 A6/J/1990  AVAILABLE
 W'PONDS  810.54 T1611 A6/J/1990  AVAILABLE
Description 287 pages ; 20 cm
Contents Feathers from a thousand Li away -- The twenty-six malignant gates -- American translation -- Queen mother of the western skies
Summary For long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions. And she waited, year after year, until she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English
Analysis Fiction in English American writers, 1945- - Texts
Notes First published: William Heinemann, 1989
A copy of this title was donated by Professor Ron Klein
Subject American fiction.
Chinese American families -- Fiction.
Chinese American women -- Fiction.
Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction, American.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
ISBN 0143038095 (paperback)
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