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Amy Tan
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Pages: 416 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0007179979
Pub: HarperPerennial
Pub date: 2004-07-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 38679
Reader Reviews:
A classic in the making (0/0 people found this helpful)
This is one of the best, if not the best, book I have ever read and I have read a lot over the years. It is also, I think, Amy Tan's best work. I have even bought copies for friends because I believe it is one everyone should read.
Amy Tan hasn't failed in bringing the emotional involvement in this book (1/2 people found this helpful)
`The Kitchen God's Wife' by Amy Tan is a fictional novel about a mother's flash back experience, Wei Wei (Wennie), who escapes from her dreaded and abusive husband, Wen Fu. The story escalates from China to America. There is a lot of drama that's very emotional and many readers will tend to feel heart broken and sad.
Winnie is just such a strong individual and I really wonder how she managed to survive, but I think every battered wife and every fearful female should read `The Kitchen God's Wife'. As in `Joy Luck Club', the mother-daughter relationship plays a vital role in this book. I have notice that Chinese mothers can really be puzzling and unpredictable because their culture brings in so many supernatural forces, superstitions, beliefs which may seem absurd and probably unthinkable for those who don't understand them and is obviously still alive in their traditions. Even if you don't have a Chinese mother, this book still digs deep into your thoughts and makes you reconsider just how well you know your mother.
`The Kitchen God's Wife' also consists of family relationships, true friendship, human strength, despair, and above all, hopes. If you open your heart to it, it'll probably change your life. So for those of you, who have read `The Joy Luck Club' or are interested to read something with drama, then give `The Kitchen's God Wife' a try.
beautiful (1/2 people found this helpful)
I adore this book, I couldn't put it down. It's beautiful and sad, but written with such humour, I highly recommend it. Amy Tan is a fantastic writer.
Relation (5/7 people found this helpful)
This is one of the best books I have read. Told in detail, but not too much to the point it bores you, and it really helps give an understanding of what life was like for Chinese women. But I have to say, if I were her I would have killed Wen Fu! Beautiful story, and I can relate to the mother-daughter distance idea. I totally recommend.
A Tragic Story of hope (10/10 people found this helpful)
This is another wonderful book by Amy Tan. The depth of stories told layer upon layer drawn perhaps from the combined experinces of many people create an atmosphere of a remote region of Southern China in the midst of war. It is a harsh story but beautifully told with warmth and humour. The Asian style of life where people rarely say quite what they mean for the good of the whole is so typically and naturally portrayed. It is a story of hope and liberation and of the many trials and hardships that eventually lead to her goal. Perhaps, finally, as the story and the secrets are unravelled the daughter begins to understand t he importance of the beliefs and customs of her Chinese- born mother.
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