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her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland
a Japanese diplomat
He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son
The effects of rapid urbanisation and modernisation on local architecture are also examined
The Joy Luck Club Condition:Like New her tragic worldliness and herFour mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is
