The Joy Luck Club

One of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever – Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich AsiansIn this deft and original debut, Amy Tan shows that she is both a consummate storyteller and writer whose prose manages to be emotionally charged without a trace of sentimentality * Sunday Times *A brilliant first novel… Tan writes from the heart, cutting sharp edges with wit, wisdom and a gentle and delicate precision… The novel covers a remarkable spectrum and reveals the private secrets and ghosts that haunt, torment - and comfort. Completely compelling * Time Out *That rare, mesmerizing novel that one always seeks but seldom finds…a pure joy to read * Chicago Tribune *An extremely absorbing novelBeautifully written…a jewel of a book * New York Times *So much happens in this book, and there are so many voices, yet Tan seems to bind the strands together so effortlessly * i *

Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California in 1952, two and a half years after her parents emigrated to the US. Though her parents hoped she would become a neurosurgeon by trade and a concert pianist by hobby, instead she became an administrator of programmes for disabled children and later a reporter and editor. She visited China for the first time in 1987 and found it was just how her mother had said- ‘As soon as my feet touched China, I became Chinese.’ Amy Tan lives in San Francisco with her husband.

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