Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer who works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film.企业所得税会计分录
Tan has written veral other bestlling novels, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Sens, The Bonetter's Daughter and Saving Fish From Drowning. She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. Her most recent novel Saving Fish From Drowning explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition in the jungles of Burma. In addition to the, Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, the Chine Siame Cat (1994), which was turned into an animated ries which aired on PBS. She also appeared on PBS in a short spot encouraging children to write
Personal life
Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California to Chine immigrants John Tan, an electrical engineer and Baptist minister, and Daisy, who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. This incident provided the basis for Tan's first novel, 1989 New York Times bestller The Joy Luck Club.[1]
Amy is the middle child and only daughter among Daisy and John Tan's three children. In the late 1960s Amy's sixteen-year-old brother Peter died of a brain tumor. Within a year of Peter's death, Amy's father died of the same dia. After the family tragedies, Daisy moved Amy and her younger brother John Jr. to Switzerland, where Amy finished high school.[2] During this period, Amy learned about her mother's former marriage to an abusive man in China, and of their four children, including three daughters and a son who died as a toddler. In 1987 Amy traveled with Daisy to China. There, Amy finally met her three half-sisters.[3]
Tan received her bachelor's and master's degrees in English and linguistics from San José State University, and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC
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崤怎么读She resides in Sausalito, California with her husband, Louis DeMattei, a lawyer whom she met on a blind date and married in 1974.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
∙ The Joy Luck Club (1989)
∙ The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)
∙ The Hundred Secret Sens (1995)
∙ Two Kinds (2000)
∙ The Bonetter's Daughter (2001)
∙ Saving Fish from Drowning (2005)
[edit] Children's books
∙ The Moon Lady, illustrated by Gretchen Schields (1992)
∙ Sagwa, the Chine Siame Cat, illustrated by Gretchen Schields (1994)
[edit] Non-fiction
∙ The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings (2003)[5]
∙ Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Cords and an Attitude (with Dave Barry, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Barbara Kingsolver) (1994)
∙ Mother (with Maya Angelou, Mary Higgins Clark) (1996)
∙ The Best American Short Stories 1999 (Editor, with Katrina Kenison) (1999)
[edit] Awards
∙ Finalist National Book Award
∙ Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award
∙ Finalist Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize
∙ Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
∙ Commonwealth Gold Award
∙ American Library Association's Notable Books
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∙ American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults
∙ Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature Honorable Mention
∙ Selected for the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read
∙ New York Times Notable Book
∙ Booklist Editors Choice
∙ Finalist for the Orange Prize
∙ Nominated for the Orange Prize
∙ Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
∙ Audie Award: Best Non-fiction, Abridged
∙ Parents' Choice Award, Best Television Program for Children
∙ Shortlisted British Academy of Film and Television Arts award, best screenplay adaptation
∙ Shortlisted WGA Award, best screenplay adaptation
∙ 婴儿睡眠时间表Academy of Achievement, Golden Plate Award
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[edit] Quotes
∙ "I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being mirable."简谱入门基础知识[6]
∙ "You e what power is – holding someone el's fear in your hand and showing it to th
em" Tan, Amy (1991). The Kitchen God's Wife. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 387. ISBN 0-399-13578-2.
∙ "I'm sitting in the $4.95 bookstore bleachers along with Shakespeare, Conrad and Joyce," she said. "I acknowledge that there is a fundamental difference that parates us. I am a contemporary author and they are not. And since I'm not dead yet, I can talk back." (The Opposite of Fate 10)[7]
The Joy Luck Club
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In 1949, four Chine women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestlling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
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