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Autobiografisch relaas van de Chinees-Amerikaanse schrijfster (1952- ) over haar schrijverschap.
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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
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in Spanish
0307344770 9780307344779
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The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
September 1, 2004, Large Print Press
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in English
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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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Table of Contents
A Note to the Reader
Page 1
FATE AND FAITH
The CliffsNotes Version of My Life
Page 7
How We Knew
Page 39
A Question of Fate
Page 41
Faith
Page 61
CHANGING THE PAST
Last Week
Page 69
My Grandmother's Choice
Page 99
Thinly Disguised Memoir
Page 105
Persona Errata
Page 113
Scent
Page 121
AMERICAN CIRCUMSTANCES AND CHINESE CHARACTER
Fish Cheeks
Page 125
Dangerous Advice
Page 128
Midlife Confidential
Page 135
Arrival Banquet
Page 154
Joy Luck and Hollywood
Page 176
STRONG WINDS, STRONG INFLUENCES
What She Meant
Page 207
Confessions
Page 212
Pretty Beyond Belief
Page 215
The Most Hateful Words
Page 218
My Love Affair with Vladimir Nabokov
Page 221
LUCK, CHANCE, AND A CHARMED LIFE
Inferior Decorating
Page 231
Room with a View, New Kitchen, and Ghosts
Page 235
Retreat to Reality
Page 239
My Hair, My Face, My Nails
Page 245
The Ghosts of My Imagination
Page 250
A CHOICE OF WORDS
What the Library Means to Me
Page 269
Mother Tongue
Page 271
The Language of Discretion
Page 280
Five Writing Tips
Page 291
Required Reading and Other Dangerous Subjects
Page 299
Angst and the Second Book
Page 324
The Best Stories
Page 334
HOPE
What I Would Remember
Page 357
To Complain Is American
Page 360
The Opposite of Fate
Page 367
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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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