--- product_id: 1501658 title: "The Joy Luck Club: A Novel" price: "₱1685" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1501658-the-joy-luck-club-a-novel store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # The Joy Luck Club: A Novel **Price:** ₱1685 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Joy Luck Club: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** ₱1685 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1501658-the-joy-luck-club-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Amy Tan’s modern classic that examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters—now with a new preface “For me, [ The Joy Luck Club ] was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.”—Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians “Brilliant.”— The Washington Post Book World “A jewel of a book.”— The New York Times Book Review “Amy Tan [is] a writer of dazzling talent.”— Chicago Tribune In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to play mah jong, remember the past, and gossip into the night. United in unspeakable loss and new hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the memories that display these women’s strength, worries, and determination. 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 the matriarchal ties that they believe have stymied their ability to face the uncertainties of the future. Intimate and moving, The Joy Luck Club shows us how the inheritance of pain and unspoken secrets can lead to misunderstanding—and yet how love can still offer the promise of reconciliation. Review: Powerful - I could not put this down. As a first-generation immigrant, this book hit incredibly close to home. It perfectly captures the silent gaps between languages, the heavy weight of parental expectations, and the deep ache of wanting to be truly understood by the people who raised you. This will stay with me for a very long time. Review: Generational and Cultural Conflct - I must have watched the film a dozen times. Something about it kept me enraptured. Maybe it was because I was myself a child of immigrants (Russian rather than Chinese). The movie spoke to me about the sadness of cultural conflict between a parent who tries so hard to instill a certain cultural awareness in a child who resists it. So I finally decided to read the book. While it was jarring, it was also a personal story that left me wondering about my own history and that of my parents. For that I am thankful to the author for sharing this story. The book is a far richer story than the movie was. By that I mean that there is more background, more history, and much more Chinese culture(s). And the language used is beautiful to read. Amy Tan manages to evoke an entire milieu with her words. But the movie was what I was used to. I tried to put aside the images from the movie, but I kept returning to it and while reading I kept thinking to myself that this was not how it was in the movie. So, the book. It is a story about 4 Chinese women and their 4 Chinese-American daughters. The book is set up in 16 chapters so that we get the perspective of all 4 mothers and their 4 daughters respectively, although since one mother has died, that part of the book is told from the perspective of the deceased woman's husband and daughter. In mainland China this woman, Suyuan Woo, was displaced during the war (Chinese-Japanese War during the 30s and 40s) and formed a Joy Luck Club that would play mahjong while sharing the joys and sadness in each others' lives. Now displaced again because of the Japanese invasion, Suyuan forms another Joy Luck Club in San Francisco in 1949, where she met the other 3 Chinese mothers through a local church. In the book, and in the film, we see the backgrounds of the mothers in China. The stories are varied although there is an undercurrent of tragedy in all of them. Those were not easy times to live in China and certainly not as a woman. We are witness to an entire sociocultural world that somehow only gets transplanted in bits and pieces to the United States. This creates serious tensions in all four of the mother-daughter relationships as the mothers and daughters live in different worlds even while inhabiting the same space. So in addition to the usual generation gap, there is also a cultural gap. The mothers have all their history from China while the daughters all have their own emotional issues to deal with as children of immigrants in a new society. As they try to understand each other, the story progresses so that by the end, when we return to China, we see that an emotional bridge has been created between mother and daughter. A bridge that allows the gap to be crossed. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,078 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #10 in Literary Criticism & Theory #15 in Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature (Books) #33 in Multigenerational Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,295 Reviews | ## Images ![The Joy Luck Club: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61n+IWg9twL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerful *by T***Y on June 3, 2026* I could not put this down. As a first-generation immigrant, this book hit incredibly close to home. It perfectly captures the silent gaps between languages, the heavy weight of parental expectations, and the deep ache of wanting to be truly understood by the people who raised you. This will stay with me for a very long time. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Generational and Cultural Conflct *by G***Y on May 9, 2012* I must have watched the film a dozen times. Something about it kept me enraptured. Maybe it was because I was myself a child of immigrants (Russian rather than Chinese). The movie spoke to me about the sadness of cultural conflict between a parent who tries so hard to instill a certain cultural awareness in a child who resists it. So I finally decided to read the book. While it was jarring, it was also a personal story that left me wondering about my own history and that of my parents. For that I am thankful to the author for sharing this story. The book is a far richer story than the movie was. By that I mean that there is more background, more history, and much more Chinese culture(s). And the language used is beautiful to read. Amy Tan manages to evoke an entire milieu with her words. But the movie was what I was used to. I tried to put aside the images from the movie, but I kept returning to it and while reading I kept thinking to myself that this was not how it was in the movie. So, the book. It is a story about 4 Chinese women and their 4 Chinese-American daughters. The book is set up in 16 chapters so that we get the perspective of all 4 mothers and their 4 daughters respectively, although since one mother has died, that part of the book is told from the perspective of the deceased woman's husband and daughter. In mainland China this woman, Suyuan Woo, was displaced during the war (Chinese-Japanese War during the 30s and 40s) and formed a Joy Luck Club that would play mahjong while sharing the joys and sadness in each others' lives. Now displaced again because of the Japanese invasion, Suyuan forms another Joy Luck Club in San Francisco in 1949, where she met the other 3 Chinese mothers through a local church. In the book, and in the film, we see the backgrounds of the mothers in China. The stories are varied although there is an undercurrent of tragedy in all of them. Those were not easy times to live in China and certainly not as a woman. We are witness to an entire sociocultural world that somehow only gets transplanted in bits and pieces to the United States. This creates serious tensions in all four of the mother-daughter relationships as the mothers and daughters live in different worlds even while inhabiting the same space. So in addition to the usual generation gap, there is also a cultural gap. The mothers have all their history from China while the daughters all have their own emotional issues to deal with as children of immigrants in a new society. As they try to understand each other, the story progresses so that by the end, when we return to China, we see that an emotional bridge has been created between mother and daughter. A bridge that allows the gap to be crossed. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the best books you’ll read! *by I***A on June 20, 2026* One of the best books I’ve read! Amy Tan is an amazing author and I ate this book up! Highly recommend! ## Frequently Bought Together - The Joy Luck Club: A Novel - The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. 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