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The Kitchen God's Wife

Amy Tan

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 71230 Users | 2076 Reviews

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Title	:	The Kitchen God's Wife
Author	:	Amy Tan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	September 21st 2006 by Penguin Books (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China. Asia. Contemporary

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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.

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Original Title:	The Kitchen God's Wife
ISBN:	0143038109 (ISBN13: 9780143038108)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Winnie, Auntie Helen, Pearl Bright, Mary, Frank Russell, Roger "Bao Bao", Doug Cheu, Phil Brandt, Tessa Russo, Cleo, Mimi Wong, Loy Fong, Edna Fong, New Aunt, Old Aunt, Wen Fu, Huazheng "Peanut", Uncle Henry
Setting:	United States of America

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This is my favorite of Amy Tan's books. I loved it!

I officially do not want to read anything by Tan again. At least this is how I feel at the moment.Why the three stars: The Kitchen God's Wife is very well written, but I hated what this book was doing to me. The WWII in China is merely a backdrop for the protagonist's personal drama of epic proportions; suffice to say that when something very bad, but not exactly cruel, happened (view spoiler)[(one of protagonist's children dies, quite straightforwardly, of plague) (hide spoiler)], I felt

Maybe its because I just finished it, but I really liked this book. This is a story of a Chinese woman named "Winnie" and the secrets she keeps from her daughter, not only to protect her daughter, but to protect herself and her best friend. As with many of the books we read, Winnie has had a hard life, almost horrific in some respects but the reason I love her is that the story isn't tragic, she doesn't complain about it (too much), or make herself out to be a hero, well except maybe in her own

The book starts out in contemporary America, and is narrated by Pearl a second generation Chinese emigrant, who is trying to balance her own 21st century American family life with the needs of her Chinese mother and her mothers friends. From the third chapter on the narrating is taken over by Winnie, Pearls mother, and it transforms into being the story of her life told against the background of her living in Shanghai in the 1930s and 40s, under the Kuomintang, but with the Communists already

The Kitchen God's Wife was my second novel by Amy Tan. As it often the case with Tan, this novel focuses on the dynamics of an American Chinese family, more precisely on the relationship between a mother and a daughter. There are other characters, but there is no doubt that the mother and the daughter are the protagonists of this novel. Pear and Winnie are not only the sole narrators, they are what this novel is about. The Kitchen Gods Wife opens with the daughters narration. Pearl has been born

When we meet Winnie Louie, she seems like a traditional Chinese wife, ruling her family with a combination of love and superstition. Now widowed, she still misses her husband, Jimmie Louie, and worries excessively about her two grown children. Winnie has secrets she has kept hidden since her youth in China, secrets she wants to tell Pearl but is afraid to.Pearl Louie, now in her 40s, has secrets too. She has just been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and knows that her mother will wonder what

I adore the way Amy Tan intertwines more than one story line into her books, at first glance it seems that the tale centers on Pearl, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant, who has morphed into the modern American culture and who finds her mother annoying and old fashioned at times. Once the reader gets familiar with Pearl the story then turns back to her mother, Winnie and her childhood friend Helen. Winnie's story is sad and beautiful at the same time, her suffering and struggles to overcome an