21 2006 by Amy Tan (Author) 5,808 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 26.00 17 Used from 22.95 18 New from 26.00 Paperback 22.42 41 Used from 6.99 19 New from 16. A similar metamorphosis or transformation has occurred in Tan’s parable, although, of course, we know that the market vendor’s story is just a clever bit of sales patter, a piece of nonsense, to give the swan a ‘back story’ which will make the woman in the parable pay an extortionate sum for it. The Joy Luck Club: A Novel Paperback Sept. The symbolism of the swan in ‘Feathers from a Thousand Li Away’ recalls Hans Christian Andersen’s famous nineteenth-century fairy tale, ‘ The Ugly Duckling’, in which a young duck (which is different from the other ducks, and in fact turns out to be a cygnet) grows up to become a beautiful swan. It is fitting that ‘Feathers from a Thousand Li Away’ prefaces the stories that follow in The Joy Luck Club, since it introduces a number of key themes that will return again and again in the novel: mothers and their relationships with their daughters, Chinese women emigrating to the United States in search of a better life for themselves and for their future children, and the possibility, or hope, of transformation.
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