- Chinese fiction, Family, Fiction, California, fiction
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Amy Tan
- First published
- August 1996
- Pages
- 459
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Flamingo, Ivy Books
- Editions
- 56
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Chinese, German
- ISBN
- 9789571308746
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