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The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan

been busy reading recently and have found some real gems of novels, which truly deserve to be more renowned than they are. Alas, from the pen of Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club) I’ve just finished reading The Kitchen God’s Wife. Let me explain this rather obscure title. In China there are many gods representing many different things: Money gods, Love gods to name a couple. The Kitchen God, according to one of our narrators of the novel, originates from a story from China about a farmer named Zhang. Zhang was married to a hardworking wife named Guo. Because of her hard work, his farm thrived, but despite this Zhang was not contented. He one day brought ...

The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan

been busy reading recently and have found some real gems of novels, which truly deserve to be more renowned than they are. Alas, from the pen of Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club) I’ve just finished reading The Kitchen God’s Wife. Let me explain this rather obscure title. In China there are many gods representing many different things: Money gods, Love gods to name a couple. The Kitchen God, according to one of our narrators of the novel, originates from a story from China about a farmer named Zhang. Zhang was married to a hardworking wife named Guo. Because of her hard work, his farm thrived, but despite this Zhang was not contented. He one day brought ...

The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan

This novel has not received the critical acclaim of the Joy Luck Club but shows her writing at it's best. The story revolves around a mother/ daughter relationship which forms the basis for most of her novels. In this novel, the daughter, Pearl is happily married with a family but in many ways distant from her mother. She has MS but has not told her mother because she fears her reaction. A family friend's illness is the catalyst for the sharing of their secrets. However, her mother has kept many secrets about her past from her and the novel sensitively addresses the difficulties of the parent /child relationship compounded by cross cultural differences. The ...

The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan

This novel has not received the critical acclaim of the Joy Luck Club but shows her writing at it's best. The story revolves around a mother/ daughter relationship which forms the basis for most of her novels. In this novel, the daughter, Pearl is happily married with a family but in many ways distant from her mother. She has MS but has not told her mother because she fears her reaction. A family friend's illness is the catalyst for the sharing of their secrets. However, her mother has kept many secrets about her past from her and the novel sensitively addresses the difficulties of the parent /child relationship compounded by cross cultural differences. The ...

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

Amy Tan is one of my favourite authors. She has a slightly different style of writing (cant explain it but there is something different about it) but it gets to me every single time I pick up one of her books. The Joy luck club is her first book and it is a great book. She follows the lives of 4 women and their daughters ...

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

Amy Tan is one of my favourite authors. She has a slightly different style of writing (cant explain it but there is something different about it) but it gets to me every single time I pick up one of her books. The Joy luck club is her first book and it is a great book. She follows the lives of 4 women and their daughters ...