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The First Edition Cover of The Kitchen God's Wife
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Title: The First Edition Cover of The Kitchen God's Wife
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[Metadata of the Book]
Title: The Kitchen God's Wife
Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication Date: 1991
Edition: The first edition
Pages: 415
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0-399-13578-2 / 978-0-399-13578-1
Media Type: print (hbk.)
Description: The Kitchen God's Wife is the second novel by Amy Tan. It deals extensively with Sino-American female identity and draws on the story of her mother's life. The story demonstrates the difficulties of bicultural life and the female struggle in a patriarchal society.
Story Background: The harrowing early life of her mother, Daisy, inspired Amy Tan’s novel The Kitchen God’s Wife. In China, Daisy had divorced an abusive husband but lost custody of her three daughters. She was forced to leave them behind when she escaped on the last boat to leave Shanghai before the Communist takeover in 1949. Her marriage to John Tan produced three children, Amy, and her two brothers.
Reception: The New York Times described the book as "remarkable ... mesmerizing... compelling ... An entire world unfolds in a Tolstoyan tide of event and detail" (books.google.com/books?id=Mu1lXW5KJJQC&printsec=front...), Some critics, such as King-Kok Cheung, have criticized Tan for her characterization of Asian men as one-sided and the "epitome of deception and cruelty." (escholarship.org/uc/item/7210f4m9)
The First Edition Cover of The Kitchen God's Wife
[Metadata of the Displayed Item]
Title: The First Edition Cover of The Kitchen God's Wife
MIME Type: .JPG
Resolution: 250 × 371 pixels
Size: 46 KB
Source: www.fantasticfiction.com/t/amy-tan/kitchen-gods-wife.htm
Copyright Note: This image is of the book cover, and the copyright for it is owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the book.
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[Metadata of the Book]
Title: The Kitchen God's Wife
Author: Amy Tan
Publisher: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication Date: 1991
Edition: The first edition
Pages: 415
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0-399-13578-2 / 978-0-399-13578-1
Media Type: print (hbk.)
Description: The Kitchen God's Wife is the second novel by Amy Tan. It deals extensively with Sino-American female identity and draws on the story of her mother's life. The story demonstrates the difficulties of bicultural life and the female struggle in a patriarchal society.
Story Background: The harrowing early life of her mother, Daisy, inspired Amy Tan’s novel The Kitchen God’s Wife. In China, Daisy had divorced an abusive husband but lost custody of her three daughters. She was forced to leave them behind when she escaped on the last boat to leave Shanghai before the Communist takeover in 1949. Her marriage to John Tan produced three children, Amy, and her two brothers.
Reception: The New York Times described the book as "remarkable ... mesmerizing... compelling ... An entire world unfolds in a Tolstoyan tide of event and detail" (books.google.com/books?id=Mu1lXW5KJJQC&printsec=front...), Some critics, such as King-Kok Cheung, have criticized Tan for her characterization of Asian men as one-sided and the "epitome of deception and cruelty." (escholarship.org/uc/item/7210f4m9)