A Chinese immigrant who is convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths, thus prompting a series of comic misunderstandings.

"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....

"I︠A︡ tak dolgo vgli︠a︡dyvalas' v kartinu, chto zaboleli glaza. I︠A︡ izuchila peĭzazh do mel'chaĭshikh detaleĭ, no razgadat' ego ne poluchalos'... Neuzheli ėto rasskaz o prostake, kotoryĭ gnalsi︠a︡ za d'i︠a︡vol'skoĭ mechtoĭ i teper' s beznadezhnoĭ toskoĭ smotrit na gorshok s zolotom, zapri︠a︡tannyĭ v nedostupnoĭ sii︠a︡i︠u︡shcheĭ dali? U Vaĭolet schastlivoe detstvo - ona zhivet v roskoshi i okruzhena li︠u︡bov'i︠u︡...