- American Novelists, Family, Chinese Americans, Fiction
Autobiografisch relaas van de Chinees-Amerikaanse schrijfster (1952- ) over haar schrijverschap.
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Contemplative, classical in form, character-led and earnest.
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Amy Tan
- First published
- January 2001
- Pages
- 398
- Publisher
- Putnam, Random House Mondadori, Bakker
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Dutch, English, Spanish, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780147500595
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First sentence
“Soon after my first book was published, I found myself often confronted with the subject of my mortality.”
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