The Resource Saving fish from drowning, Amy Tan
Saving fish from drowning, Amy Tan
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- Summary
- A 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?
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Saving fish from drowning
- Title
- Saving fish from drowning
- Statement of responsibility
- Amy Tan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A 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?
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tan, Amy
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3570.A48
- LC item number
- S23 2005
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Americans
- Missing persons
- Tourists
- Burma
- Label
- Saving fish from drowning, Amy Tan
- Control code
- ocm60373545
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 474 p.
- Isbn
- 9780399153013
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005048724
- Label
- Saving fish from drowning, Amy Tan
- Control code
- ocm60373545
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 474 p.
- Isbn
- 9780399153013
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005048724
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