Saving Fish from Drowning Hardcover - 2005
by Amy Tan
A provocative new novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Cluband The Bonesetter's Daughter.
On an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their FloatingIsland Resort for a Christmas-morning tour-and disappear. Through twists of fate, curses, and just plain human error,they find themselves deep in the jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime.
Filled with Amy Tan's signature "idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery"(Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions-both good and bad-and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.
A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to savea hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where theyflop and twirl. 'Don't be scared,' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes growcalm 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 soI can save more fishes."
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- Title Saving Fish from Drowning
- Author Amy Tan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st/1st
- Pages 474
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
- Date 2005-10-18
- ISBN 9780399153013 / 0399153012
- Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.34 x 1.52 in (23.57 x 16.10 x 3.86 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Suspense fiction, Missing persons
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005048724
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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