The Joy Luck Club (喜福會)

Title : The Joy Luck Club (喜福會)

Publ Info : [Burbank, Calif.] : Hollywood Pictures Home Video ; Hong Kong : Distributed by Intercontinental Video, [2000]

Call No. : AVI 791.4372 J844

Summary :
A New York Times Bestseller. In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother's lifelong wish, and the tragic way in which it has come true.

The Joy Luck Club

Author : Amy Tan

Title : The Joy Luck Club

Publ Info : London : Vintage Books, 1998

Call No. : 813.54 T153J 1998


Summary :
A New York Times Bestseller. In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother's lifelong wish, and the tragic way in which it has come true.