Amy Tan: 27 books

Shanghai, 1912. De veertienjarige Violet Minturn wordt gedwongen om een `maagdelijke courtisane te worden, maar als half-Chinese, half-Amerikaanse ontpopt ze zich daarentegen tot een gewiekste zakenvrouw die handelt in verleiding en illusie. Ook Violets moeder Lucia worstelt met deze half-westerse,...

Questa è la storia di Violet, figlia di Lulu, tenutaria di una “casa di piaceri” di lusso nella Shangai del 1905. Lulu è americana e single, mentre il padre di Violet è Lu Shing, famoso pittore erede di una ricca famiglia cinese. Violet, capricciosa e viziata, convinta che la madre non la ami...

From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and *The Valley of Amazement *Amy Tan reveals the ways that our memories and personal experiences...

**“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin...

Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir, Where the Past Begins Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy....

Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village. Spanning more than forty years and two continents,...

Con una prosa espontánea y magnífica, Amy Tan articula un viaje a través de la memoria para mostrar cómo los recuerdos casi olvidados se convirtieron en los núcleos emocionales de sus novelas y cómo hicieron inevitable que se dedicara a la escritura. La autora explora impactantes verdades sobre...

« Émouvant et très courageux... Amy Tan nous décrit d'une façon inédite la Chine, les femmes sino-américaines, leurs familles et le mystérieux lien existant entre mère et fille. » - Alice Walker, auteur de La Couleur pourpre Début du XXe siècle à Shanghai. Violet Minturn...

The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more...

La espera ha valido la pena. Amy Tan, aclamada autora de El Club de la Buena Estrella, regresa con una maravillosa novela de madres e hijas, logros y pérdidas, secretos y deseos. 1912, Shanghái. Violeta es la hija adolescente de Lulú, una estadounidense propietaria de la mejor casa de cortesanas...

San Francisco, 1949. Proseguendo una tradizione cominciata nel loro paese d’origine, quattro donne cinesi appena immigrate si incontrano regolarmente per mangiare dim sum, giocare a mah-jong e condividere storie e ricordi. Unite da un passato doloroso minato da guerre e rovesciamenti di fortuna,...

Con el fin de evitar que sus recuerdos se pierdan para siempre, la anciana LuLing, emigrada a Estados Unidos, escribe el relato de su pasado en China. Un día, su hija Ruth encuentra esos documentos en el apartamento y, a través de ellos, llega a conocer los primeros años de vida de su madre, y...

With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.

A mother and daughter find what they share in their bones in this compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir. Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that...