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Sinopsis Buku: 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.
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Amy Tan dilahirkan di Oakland, California, tahun 1952, dua setengah tahun setelah orangtuanya berimigrasi ke Amerika Serikat. Walaupun orangtuanya mengharapkan dia memilih profesi sebagai dokter saraf dan pianis konser sebagai hobi, dia menjadi konsultan program bagi anak-anak terbelakang, kemudian menjadi penulis freelance. Dia mengunjungi Cina untuk pertama kalinya di tahun 1987. Amy Tan menyandang gelar master linguistik dari San Jose State University. Esai-esainya telah dimuat dalam majalah Life, The state of Language, dan The Threepenny Review. Cerpen-cerpennya sering mengisi The Atlantic, Grand Street, Lear`s McCall`s dan majalah-majalah lain. Ia dan suaminya, Lu DeMattei, tinggal di San Francisco dan New York, bersama kucing mereka, Sagwa, dan anjing mereka, Mr.Zo. The Joy Luck ... [ selengkapnya]
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