The Kitchen God's Wife
by Tan, Amy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Foxing along page edges (not affecting text or margins) otherwise a clean very good hard cover book in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0399135782
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135781
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
"Riveting...the book rings with distinctive voices, and it's laden with those details that make readers feel that they've gained a toehold on another world." -USA TodayWinnie 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.
Reviews
it's beautiful, you won't regret spending your money in buying this book. you will learn many things about chinese culture.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorrin Wong, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2021178
- Title
- The Kitchen God's Wife
- Author
- Tan, Amy
- Book Condition
- Used - Foxing along page edges (not affecting text or margins) otherwise a clean very good hard cover book in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st printing of 1st US edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399135782
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135781
- Publisher
- NY: Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
Terms of Sale
Lorrin Wong, Bookseller
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