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luck is a matter of preparation meetng oppportunity said the american全文翻译不要用翻译工具●Ms Tan,you've referred to your new novel as your eighth book. That's because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one. ●Why do you think you had so many false starts? I would say that my reasons were wrong:I was trying to prove that I wasn't just a mother-daughter storyteller,or I was trying to prove that I didn't just have to write about things that were strictly Chinese or ChineseAmerican.Those were never the right reasonsfor writing those early stories.And I could never come up with other,better reasons for continuing them. ●What kept you going on this book? This book was different because it was based on my mother's real life.The reason for writing it became more personal and emotional.After The Joy Luck Club came out,my mother was always explaining to people that she wasn't any of the mothers in that book.And at one point she said to me,"Next book tells my true story."And then she started telling me things I never knew before.She also told me many,many stories,because my motherdoesn't generalize.The book really grew out of that. ●Have you ever visited China? Yes.I've been there twice:about three years ago and then again last November,both times with my mother and my husband. ●Was it difficult to capture the ChineseAmerican dialect without sounding like a parody(拙劣的模仿)? No,because it's the language I've hea