The Joy Luck Club
Автор: Amy Tan
Acknowledgments
The Joy Luck Club
Foreward
Feathers From a Thousand LI Away
The Joy Luck Club Jing-Mei Woo
- My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the…
- "I thought up Joy Luck on a summer night that…
- "Along the way, I saw others had done the same, gradually…
- "Ladies, are you at this meeting or not? " says…
- The East is where things begin, my mother once told…
- Listening now to Auntie Lin bragging about the…
- "You must see your sisters and tell them about your mother's…
Scar
The Red Candle
- I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents'…
- That was also the year I first saw my husband…
- Over the next few years, Huang Taitai instructed…
- A high official conducted the ceremony and he talked too…
- After more months had passed and my stomach and…
- "And finally, I saw him plant a seed in a servant girl's…
The Moon Lady
- For all these years I kept my mouth closed…
- She spun me around to inspect her handiwork. I was…
- And then I heard Amah calling me again. "Ying-ying!…
- But the excitement soon waned, and the afternoon…
- I was surprised by the cool comfort of the water, so that…
- "My fate and my penance, " she began to lament, pulling…
The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates
Rules of the Game
The Voice from the Wall
Half and Half
Two Kinds
American Translation
Rice Husband
- To this day, I believe my mother has the mysterious…
- But my mother sighed. "Yesterday, you not finish rice…
- Harold and I work at the same architectural firm,…
- "That's a wonderful idea, " I said immediately,…
- chicken, veg. , bread, broccoli, shampoo, beer $19.…
- "What use for? " asks my mother, jiggling the table…
Four Directions
- I had taken my mother out to lunch at my favorite Chinese…
- "What I should say? " "About the apartment? About this?…
- "You know, I really don't understand you, " said Marlene…
- "No, no. It's just that we were walking by, " I said.…
- Rich shook his head. "Whew! You can say that again.…
- "How do you know this? " she asked eagerly.…
Without Wood
Best Quality
Queen Mother of the Western Skies
Magpies
- Yesterday my daughter said to me, "My marriage…
- "See how your evil influence has already spread to your…
- In her gloved hands she held a large cream-colored…
- Yan Chang called loudly to other servants…
- It was perhaps two weeks after we had arrived. I was in…
- My mother was standing behind me, ready to greet everybody.…
- "We are going to live in a house of our own, " she told…
- "But this did not stop Second Wife from thinking…
- I watched my mother march in her bed. I wanted…
Waiting Between the Trees
Double face
A Pair of Tickets
- The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong border…
- "Where is Mama? " they would say, and look around, still…
- "Syau Yen! Syau Yen! " I hear a piercing voice shout from…
- The hotel is magnificent. A bellboy complete with…
- "And what does Ma's name mean? " I whisper. " 'Suyuan,…
- "I thought I had lost everything, except these…
- The plane takes off. I close my eyes. How can…
Amy Tan
Жанр книги Современная проза.
The Joy Luck Club, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1989, presents the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share that vision with her daughter. The daughters try to understand and appreciate their mothers' pasts, adapt to the American way of life, and win their mothers' acceptance. The book's name comes from the club formed in China by one of the mothers, Suyuan Woo, in order to lift her friends' spirits and distract them from their problems during the Japanese invasion. Suyuan continued the club when she came to the United States -hoping to bring luck to her family and friends and finding joy in that hope.
Amy Tan wrote The Joy Luck Club to try to understand her own relationship with her mother. Tan's Chinese parents wanted Americanized children but expected them to think like Chinese. Tan found this particularly difficult as an adolescent. While the generational differences were like those experienced by other mothers and daughters, the cultural distinctions added another dimension. Thus, Tan wrote not only to sort out her cultural heritage but to learn how she and her mother could get along better.
Critics appreciate Tan's straightforward manner as well as the skill with which she talks about Chinese culture and mother/daughter relationships. Readers also love The Joy Luck Club: women of all ages identify with Tan's characters and their conflicts with their families, while men have an opportunity through this novel to better understand their own behaviors towards women. Any reader can appreciate Tan's humor, fairness, and objectivity.
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