W. Ross Macdonald School Library

The Joy Luck Club /

by Tan, Amy, Edition statement:First U.S. Ballantine Books edition. | Enlarged by W. Ross Macdonald School. Published by : Ivy Books, (New York :) Physical details: 2 volumes (332 pages) : comb binding ; 35 cm ISBN:0804106304.
Subject(s): Chinese Americans -- Fiction. | Immigrants -- Fiction. | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction. | Parent and child -- Fiction. | FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General
Year: 1989 Item type: Large Print List(s) this item appears in: Books With Movie Versions
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Fiction 		Fiction F TAN (Browse shelf (Opens below)) Copy: 1 Vol: 1(2) Available 2012-3622
Large Print Large Print W. Ross Macdonald School Library
Fiction 		Fiction F TAN (Browse shelf (Opens below)) Copy: 1 Vol: 2(2) Available 2012-3623

Four Chinese women flee warfare in their homeland in 1949 and settle in San Francisco. When one of them dies 40 years later, her American-born daughter learns some astonishing truths about her mother's life in China and discovers the value of tradition.

This work in alternate format is reproduced with the permission of the Canadian Reprography Collection. The books are financed by the Ministry of Education, Ontario and are lent without charge to visually handicapped students.

California Book Award for Fiction, 1989

National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, 1989

National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction, 1989

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