The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
This novel explores the complex relationships between four Chinese-American mothers and their American-born daughters. The narrative switches between the perspectives of the eight women, revealing their pasts, their struggles with cultural identity, and the misunderstandings that have grown between the generations. The mothers, who all experienced hardship in their native China, want their daughters to have better lives and thus push them to excel in America. The daughters, in turn, struggle to reconcile their American surroundings with their Chinese heritage.
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- Published
- 1989
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 288-332
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- Il Circolo Della Fortuna E Della Felicità
- Il circolo della fortuna e della felicità
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- 2nd on PEOPLE Picks the Best Books From the 1980s (PEOPLE Magazine)
- 8th on Top 100 World Literature Titles (Perfection Learning)
- 16th on 100 Best Western(United States) Works of Fiction (San Francisco Chronicle)
- 25th on The New Classics - 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 (Entertainment Weekly)
- 41st on Edmonton's Top 100 (Edmonton Journal)
- 51st on Books Of The Century (Library Journal)
- 62nd on The Greatest Books of All Time (Reader's Digest)
- 65th on Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century (themodernnovel.com)
- 86th on 100 Best Books to Read by Women Authors (Good Housekeeping)
- 100th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
- 117th on Our Users' Honorable Mention Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
- 234th on The Complete 500: OCLC (OCLC)
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- The Booklist Century: 100 Books, 100 Years (BookList)
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- The Modern Library: The Two Hundred Best Novels in English Since 1950 (The Modern Library (Book))