The Joy Luck Club -

Amy Tan

Cambridge University Press

1995

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9780521485623

Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

Resenhas (3)

4.5 (Muito bom)

I don’t know if it’s because I listened to the audiobook, but I think I may have lost some points of the narrative hahaha. Because of that I really would like to reread it in ebook or fisical edition. Anyway, I liked the stories and enjoyed to know these descriptions about chinese culture and how the children in the book were raised in a matter of behavior and expectations. It was absolutely well written, I could feel the anxiety and a variety of emotions towards the complicated mother-daughter relationships. I particularly liked Suyuan Woo’s and Waverly Jong’s stories the most and the end was really thrilling.