The Kitchen God's Wife
A Novel
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4.3 • 306 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
"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 bestselling author of novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and the memoir, Where the Past Begins.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tan's ( The Joy Luck Club ) mesmerizing second novel, again a story that a Chinese emigre mother tells her daughter, received a PW boxed review, spent 18 weeks on PW 's hardcover bestseller list and was a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selection in cloth.
Customer Reviews
The Kitchen God's wife
This is my second time reading this book. It is enthralling, tragic and also good humor. Amy Tan has a tremendous gift for telling a story. She transports your mind to sights she describes. Just do something nice for yourself and read this beautiful book! Chef's kiss!!
Love between generations of women
The love between the women in this book is beautiful but the strength they show through the years is amazing. I absolutely loved this book as I do love Amy Tan.
The Kitchen God Wife
Great entertaining story that is well written.