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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 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.
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- Title The Kitchen God's Wife
- Author Amy Tan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 8/22/06
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-09-21
- ISBN 9780143038108 / 0143038109
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.34 x 0.9 in (20.62 x 13.56 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 810
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"A beautiful book...what fascinates in The Kitchen God's Wife is not only the insistent storytelling but the details of Chinese life and tradition; not only how people lived but how their sensibility shines through, most notably in their speech. Amy Tan has a command with language in which event and concrete perception jump into palpable metaphor, and images from the daily world act like spiritual agents." —Los Angeles Times
"Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." —The New York Times Book Review
"Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." —The New York Times Book Review
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