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An edition of The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)

The Kitchen God's Wife

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  • ★★★★ 4.3 (13 ratings)
  • 99 Want to read
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The mesmerizing story a Chinese emigre mother tells her daughter.

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Publisher
Putnam
Language
English
Pages
415

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Subjects

Chinese fiction Family Fiction California, fiction China, fiction Fiction, family life, general Mothers and daughters, fiction Chinese Americans, fiction Chinese American families, fiction Chinese Literature United States Domestic fiction +Fiction Families Female friendship Mother-daughter relationship FICTION / Sagas FICTION / Asian American FICTION / Literary Large type books Literary Criticism Nonfiction Fiction, short stories (single author) Literature, modern, outlines, syllabi, etc. Modern Literature Asian Americans Mother-Child Relations Chinese American families Chinese Americans Mothers and daughters American fiction

People

Winnie Helen Pearl

Places

California China

Times

1920's to 1949

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Cover of: The kitchen god's wife
The kitchen god's wife
2008, Harper Perennial
in English
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The Kitchen God's Wife
September 21, 2006, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
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The Kitchen God's Wife
1992, Ivy Books
in English - 1st U.S. Ballantine Books ed.
Cover of: The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
1992, Ivy Books
in English - 1st U.S. Ballantine Books ed.
Cover of: The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
1992, Ivy Books
in English - 1st Ballantine Books domestic ed
Cover of: The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
1992, Ivy Books
in English
Cover of: The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
1992, Chivers Press
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
1992, Ivy Books
in English - 1st U.S. Ballantine Books ed.
Cover of: The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
1991, Putnam
Hardcover in English
Cover of: De vrouw van de keukengod
De vrouw van de keukengod
1991, Bakker
in Dutch
Cover of: The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
1991, Ivy Books
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3570.A48 K58 1991b, PS3570.A48K58 1991b, PS3570.A48 K58 1991

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
415 p. ;
Number of pages
415

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1530439M
ISBN 10
0399135782
LCCN
91007828
OCLC/WorldCat
23144220
LibraryThing
853566
Goodreads
863993

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15821869W

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Work Description

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. 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 that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.

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