Töchter des Himmels, das ist die Geschichte von vier Frauen, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs aus Rotchina in die Vereinigten Staaten geflohen sind, um sich in San Francisco eine neue Existenz aufzubauen. Und es ist die Geschichte ihrer vier Töchter, die nicht viel von überkommenen Pflichten und Traditionen halten. Sie erheben Anspruch auf ein freies Leben unter westlichem Vorzeichen und können sich doch den Geheimnissen und der Magie des alten China nicht verschließen.

Informationen zum Autor Amy Tan was born in the US to immigrant parents from China. Her novels include The Joy Luck Club , The Kitchen God's Wife , The Hundred Secret Senses , The Bonesetter's Daughter and Saving Fish from Drowning , all New York Times bestsellers and the recipient of various awards. She is also the author of a memoir, The Opposite of Fate , two children's books, The Moon Lady and Sagwa , and numberous articles for magazines. Her work has been translated into 35 languages and has been adapted for film, television and opera. Amy Tan also serves as the Literary Editor for the Los Angeles Times magazine. Klappentext ' The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist Discover Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. 'Pure enchantment' Mail on Sunday Zusammenfassung In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club.

Vorwort
Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters.

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'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist

Discover Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters.

In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club.

Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.

'Pure enchantment' Mail on Sunday

Zusammenfassung
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club.