false 12557 46 "Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today."<br>NEWSWEEK<br>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 terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events tha led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.<br>"The kind of novel that can be read and reread with enormous pleasure."<br>CHICAGO TRIBUNE 1131637 1991 The Kitchen God's Wife total:11040|5:2488|4:4756|3:3228|2:483|1:85| 11040 42199 13275 581 5 2 false false Wed Jun 04 13:26:50 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 13:27:11 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 15:05:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 07:52:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 09:33:47 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 10:42:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 20:19:24 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 20:23:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false true Sat Sep 22 04:31:03 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 04:31:03 -0700 2007 Like Tan's other books, she juxtaposes the lives of mother and daughter through different experiences. Chinese mother and an American born daughter. The daughter struggles to understand her mother and the life she had been throu...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Aug 14 18:54:33 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 18:59:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Oct 23 16:37:42 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 16:41:42 -0700 2007 Anyway, very well written, easy to read (because of the 'simple' language Winnie uses) and an absolutely interesting tale. Shocki...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 12:06:16 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 06:42:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 23:00:21 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 23:11:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Jan 07 15:18:05 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 15:20:28 -0800 2009
First, I'm always interested to read what I would call "ethnic" books, where neither the author nor the story are about white-bread Americans. My dad came to America from the old country (The Netherlands), and even though this mom comes from Ch...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 14 23:55:05 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 23:57:42 -0700 2009 Pengarang : Amy Tan
Penerjemah : Joyce K. Isa
Penerbit : Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Cetakan : Cetakan II, Desember 1994
Halaman : 752 Halaman

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"Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that fol...more...]]> 4 0 true false Wed Sep 02 10:23:58 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 10:34:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 23 14:08:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 10:09:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 22:06:21 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 22:09:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 12 20:34:18 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 18:29:40 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 17:48:23 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 15:19:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 10:58:10 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 11:15:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 17:35:38 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 21 11:50:26 -0800 2007 The Kitchen God's Wife tells the laborous story of a mother's secret. The books is riddled with moral lessons. However, the story just seemed to drag on and on. This book is a rather tragic tale with a happy ending. You'll laugh, cry, and even fall asleep.more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 22:48:14 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 13:50:20 -0700 2009 more...]]>