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Amy Tan was born in California shortly after her parents emigrated from China. She received her Master’s degree in linguistics from San Jose State University and has worked as a freelance business writer for major US corporations. Her first novel, ‘The Joy Luck Club’, was published in 1989 to universal acclaim and was on the US best-seller list for many weeks.

Below Amy Tan talks about her life and its relation to her books: ’I was born in Oakland, California in 1952, two and a half years after my parents immigrated to the United States. My father, an electrical engineer in Peking, received a scholarship to MIT, but chose instead to go to Divinity School to become a Baptist Minister. My mother, who came from a wealthy Shanghai family, worked nights as a licensed vocational nurse.

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	000723211X/034549394X S$17.85 (GF) Saving Fish from Drowning	080410753X S$17.85 (GF) Kitchen God's Wife	080411109X S$17.85 (GF) Hundred Secret Senses	0804106304 S$17.85 (GF) Joy Luck Club
	"Saving Fish from Drowning" seduces the reader with a facade of Buddhist illusions, magical tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and of the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.	Pearl Louie Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperately to keep from her mother, Winne Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets -- about her past and the confusing circumstances of Pearl's birth. Fate intervenes in the form of Helen Kwong, Winnie's so-called sister-in-law, who believes she is dying and must unburden herself of all falsehoods before she flies off to heaven. But, unfortunately, the truth comes in many guises, depending on who is telling the tale...	"HER MOST POLISHED WORK . . . Tan is a wonderful storyteller, and the story's many strands--Olivia's childhood, her courtship and marriage, Kwan's ghost stories and village tales--propel the work to its climactic but bittersweet end." --USA Today	A stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.

	0804114986 S$17.85 (GF) Bonesetter's Daughter		0007170408 S$18.90 (BIO) The Opposite of Fate
	The Bonesetter's Daughter dramatically chronicles the tortured, devoted relationship between LuLing Young and her daughter Ruth. . . . A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery.? - Los Angeles Times		Unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelists. When I began writing this history, I let go of my doubts. I trusted the ghosts of my imagination. They showed me the hundred secret senses. And what I wrote is what I discovered about the endurance of love. So writes Amy Tan at the beginning of this remarkably candid insight into her life. Tan takes us on a journey from her childhood, as a sensitive but intelligent young Chinese American, ashamed of her parents' Chinese ways, to the present day and her position as one of the world's best-loved novelists.

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Amy Tan
		Amy Tan was born in California shortly after her parents emigrated from China. She received her Master’s degree in linguistics from San Jose State University and has worked as a freelance business writer for major US corporations. Her first novel, ‘The Joy Luck Club’, was published in 1989 to universal acclaim and was on the US best-seller list for many weeks. Below Amy Tan talks about her life and its relation to her books: ’I was born in Oakland, California in 1952, two and a half years after my parents immigrated to the United States. My father, an electrical engineer in Peking, received a scholarship to MIT, but chose instead to go to Divinity School to become a Baptist Minister. My mother, who came from a wealthy Shanghai family, worked nights as a licensed vocational nurse. [ Author's Website ]