The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan

By:

Tan, Amy [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Canada : Ballantine Books, c1991Description: 532 pages ; 18 cmISBN:

080410753X

Subject(s):

CHINESE -- FICTION

LOC classification:

FIC .T36 1991

Summary: 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 terrible 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 that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.

Item type:

Books - Fiction

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books - Fiction	National University - Manila	LRC - Annex Fiction	Fiction	FIC .T36 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NULIB000016269

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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 terrible 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 that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.

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