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100 1 $aTan, Amy,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSaving fish from drowning /$cAmy Tan.
250 $a1st ed.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPutnam,$c2005.
300 $axv, 474 pages ;$c24 cm
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520 $aA pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared, ' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so I can save more fishes."--Anonymous Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China - dubbed the true Shangri-La - and heads south into the jungles of Burma. But after the mysterious death of their tour leader, the carefully laid plans fall apart, and disharmony breaks out among the pleasure-seekers as they come to discover that the Burma Road is paved with less-than-honorable intentions, questionable food, and tribal curses. And then, on Christmas morning, eleven of the travelers boat across a misty lake for a sunrise cruise - and disappear. Drawing from the current political reality in Burma and woven with pure confabulation, Amy Tan's picaresque novel poses the question: How can we discern what is real and what is fiction, in everything we see? How do we know what to believe?
586 $aAsian/Pacific American Literature Award Honor, 2005.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aTan, Amy.$tSaving fish from drowning.$dNew York : Putnam, 2005$w(OCoLC)607737430
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856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0717/2005048724-d.html
856 42 $uhttps://www.amytan.net/
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