Amy Tans moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters that inspired the BAFTA nominated film

In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts.

The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga thats impossible to read without wanting to call your MumStylist

Amy Tan was born in the US to immigrant parents from China. Her novels includeThe Joy Luck Club,The Kitchen God's Wife,The Hundred Secret Senses,The Bonesetter's DaughterandSaving Fish from Drowning, allNew York Timesbestsellers and the recipient of various awards. She is also the author of a memoir,The Opposite of Fate, two children's books,The Moon LadyandSagwa, and numberous articles for magazines. Her work has been translated into 35 languages and has been adapted for film, television and opera. Amy Tan also serves as the Literary Editor for theLos Angeles Timesmagazine.

Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters.