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Title
The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan.
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Edition
1st U.S. Ballantine Books ed.
ISBN
080410753X (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Ivy Books, 1992, c1991.
Language
English
Description
532 p. ; 18 cm.
Item Number
9780804107532
Call Number
PS3570.A48 K58 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54
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 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.
Note
Originally published: New York : Putnam, c1991.
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