New Releases by Amy Tan

Both Sagwa and her brother Dongwa really want to win the Harvest Festival race but Dongwa will do anything to ensure that he is crowned the fastest runner in the village.

Sagwa doesn''t want to practice her calligraphy any more now that she''s seen a bunch of acrobat cats--acrocats. She tries to be one, too, but realizes she has many other talents all her own. Full color.

Otto donne cinesi: quattro madri emigrate negli Stati Uniti negli anni quaranta che giocano a mah-jong a San Francisco e le loro quattro figlie nate in California, le cui voci si alternano e si richiamano nella ricostruzione del passato e nella ricerca di un difficile equilibrio con il presente. Un racconto che parla delle contraddizioni tra l''appartenenza a una famiglia cinese e la vita negli Stati Uniti; di rapporti conflittuali, ma anche fatti di profondo amore tra madre e figlia; delle motivazioni dei sacrifici compiuti dalle madri per trasmettere la propria esperienza e la propria forza alle figlie e delle ribellioni delle figlie ai desideri delle madri, dei loro diversi ideali, fedi, speranze.

A MAGICAL NIGHT WHEN SECRET WISHES CAN COME TRUE On a rainy afternoon, three sisters wish for the rain to stoop, wish they could play in the puddles, wish for something, anything, to do. So Ying-Ying, their grandmother, tells them a tale from long ago. On the night of the Moon Festival, when Ying-ying was a little girl, she encountered the Moon Lady, who grants the secret wishes of those who ask, and learned from her that the best wishes are those you can make come true yourself. This haunting tale, adapted from Amy Tan''s best-seller The Joy Luck Club and enhanced by Gretchen Schields''s rich, meticulously detailed art, is a book for all to treasure.

Writers and rock music critics describe their experiences touring with the rock band they formed to raise money for charity

Ming Miao tells her kittens about the antics of one of their ancestors, Sagwa of China, that produced the unusual markings they have had for thousands of years.

For the adult new reader, selections from the novel on contemporary Chinese-American women.

Waverly, June, Rose und Lena, vier junge Frauen in San Francisco. Durch und durch Amerikanerinnen, die in ihrem Leben mehr Cola als Kummer geschluckt haben - im Gegensatz zu ihren Müttern. Die sind 1949 unter dramatischen Umständen vor der Roten Armee in die Vereinigten Staaten geflüchtet und noch immer chinesisch bis in die Knochen. Einmal im Monat treffen sich die zerbrechlichen alten Damen zum Mah-Jongg-Spiel, etwas, wozu ihre Töchter weder Zeit noch Lust haben. Waverly, June, Rose und Lena düsen nämlich gerade so schön auf der gesellschaftlichen Überholspur dahin. Da ist kein Platz für chinesische Mütter mit chinesischen Ansichten: daß nur eine unterwürfige Tochter eine gute Tochter ist. Von wegen! Die vier wollen schräge Sprüche, schräge Bilder und schräge Wände entwerfen und ihr eigenes Leben als Werbetexterin, Malerin, Innenarchitektin und Steuerberaterin leben. Mit der Kraft und Farbigkeit von Feuerwerkskörpern schießt Amy Tan, die als Tochter chinesischer Einwanderer in Kalifornien geboren wurde, ihre eigensinnigen Figuren in die literarische Umlaufbahn und entfacht dabei ein schillerndes Spektakel aus Mütter-Töchter-Kämpfen, Kulturkollisionen und Generationskonflikten.

据IVY BOOKS纽约1991年版译出

Nai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish.

An absorbing narrative of Winnie Louie''s life.