An edition of The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
(2001)
The opposite of fate
a book of musings
by Amy Tan
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Born into a family who believed in fate, Amy Tan has always looked for alternative ways to make sense of the world. And now, in The Opposite of Fate, her first book of non-fiction she shares her thoughts on how she escaped the expectations and curses of her past, and created her own destiny.
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American Novelists, Family, Chinese Americans, Fiction, Fate and fatalism, Chinese American families, Authorship, Family relationships, Biography, Free will and determinism, Families, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Authors, american, Women, biography, Tan, Amy, Tan, Amy - Prose & Criticism, Authors, biography, Fiction, authorship, Tan, amy, 1952-People
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En Contra Del Destino
December 6, 2005, Random House Mondadori
Paperback
in Spanish
0307344770 9780307344779
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The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
September 1, 2004, Large Print Press
Paperback
in English
- 1 edition
1594130337 9781594130335
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De keerzijde van het lot: een boek vol bespiegelingen
2003, Bakker
in Dutch
9035126025 9789035126022
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"Soon after my first book was published, I found myself often confronted with the subject of my mortality."
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Autobiografisch relaas van de Chinees-Amerikaanse schrijfster (1952- ) over haar schrijverschap.
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