Amy Tan
The Kitchen God's Wife - USA Ivy Books 1992 - 532 18 cm
Originally published: New York : Putnam, c1991.
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.
080410753X 9780804107532 0606011773 9780606011778
1991
General
Chinese fiction
Families
Domestic fiction
General
The Kitchen God's Wife - USA Ivy Books 1992 - 532 18 cm
Originally published: New York : Putnam, c1991.
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.
080410753X 9780804107532 0606011773 9780606011778
1991
General
Chinese fiction
Families
Domestic fiction
General