Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Kitchen God's Wife |
| author | Amy Tan |
| ISBN-10 | 0-804-10753-X |
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| date | 2021-Dec-17 |
In this book, Amy Tan tells the story of a young, strong willed, privileged Chinese girl. How the girl loses her (equally strong willed) mother, the way she gets into an awful (but possibly not so uncommon) marriage when she is a very young woman, how she gets to know a much less privileged life when the war breaks out and how she finally stands up against social standards and succeeds to escape her misery.
The story is told in retrospective and at the beginning the reader has no notion of what the book actually is about.
