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The Kitchen God's Wife - 1st Edition/1st Printing
de Tan, Amy
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0399135782
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135781
- Librería
-
Summerville, South Carolina, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0399135782 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Minor yellowing at top of page edges. Overall a bright clean copy; Capturing the essence of Chinese heritage and culture, Amy Tan tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter; 8vo; 415, [1] pages .
Sinopsis
"Riveting...the book rings with distinctive voices, and it's laden with those details that make readers feel that they've gained a toehold on another world." -USA TodayWinnie 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 terible 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 tha led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.
Reseñas
El Mar 8 2007, Michael341 dijo:
it's beautiful, you won't regret spending your money in buying this book. you will learn many things about chinese culture.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 18099
- Título
- The Kitchen God's Wife - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Autor
- Tan, Amy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399135782
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135781
- Editorial
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1991
- Palabras clave
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Author Collections / Tan, Amy;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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Summerville, South Carolina
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