The Kitchen God's Wife

Zusatztext "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   Informationen zum Autor Amy Tan Klappentext "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 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. The Kitchen God's Wife is "a beautiful book" (Los Angeles Times) from the author of bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement, and the memoir, Where the Past Begins. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgements   I - THE SHOP OF THE GODS Chapter 2 - GRAND AUNTIE DU’S FUNERAL Chapter 3 - WHEN FISH ARE THREE DAYS OLD Chapter 4 - LONG, LONG DISTANCE Chapter 5 - TEN THOUSAND THINGS Chapter 6 - PEANUT’S FORTUNE Chapter 7 - DOWRY COUNTING Chapter 8 - TOO MUCH YIN Chapter 9 - BEST TIME OF YEAR Chapter 10 - LOYANG LUCK Chapter 11 - FOUR SPLITS, FIVE CRACKS Chapter 12 - TAONAN MONEY Chapter 13 - HEAVEN’S BREATH Chapter 14 - BAD EYE Chapter 15 - A FLEA ON A TIGER’S HEAD Chapter 16 - THE GREAT WORLD Chapter 17 - THE FOUR GATES Chapter 18 - AMERICAN DANCE Chapter 19 - WEAK AND STRONG Chapter 20 - FOUR DAUGHTERS ON THE TABLE Chapter 21 - LITTLE YU’S MOTHER Chapter 22 - ONE SEASON LEFT Chapter 23 - SINCERELY YOURS TRULY Chapter 24 - FAVOR Chapter 25 - BAO-BAO’S WEDDING Chapter 26 - SORROWFREE   FOR THE BEST IN PAPERBACKS, LOOK FOR THE Praise for The Kitchen God’s Wife “The book takes flight ... As the story all but tells itself—so seamlessly it feels as if Tan’s ancestors are speaking through her—it bestows on us a host of luminous surprises.... Almost every page of the old wife’s tale is lit up with the magic of a world in which birds can sound like women crying and sweaters are knit in the memory of spider webs. Yet all the storybook marvels are grounded in a survivor’s vinegar wit. And in front of the watercolor backdrops are horrors pitiless enough to mount a powerful indictment against a world in which women were taught that love means always having to say you’re sorry.... Tan has transcended herself again.” — Time   “An absorbing narrative of Winnie Louie’s life, which she tells—or offers—as a gift to her daughter Pearl. Much happens in the telling: long-held secrets are revealed, and a family’s myths are transferred ceremoniously on to the next generation.... Tan returns to the richly textured world of California’s immigrant Chinese ... with its brilliant tapestry of characters and conflicts here and overseas.... She is a wonderful writer with a ra...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Amy Tan
• Editore: Penguin Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.09.2006
• EAN: 9780143038108
• ISBN: 978-0-14-303810-8
• Pagine: 416
• Dimensioni: 137 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Penguin Publishing Group
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi