Saving Fish from Drowning

Saving Fish from Drowning

â€œA rollicking, adventure-filled story . . . packed [with] the human capacity for love.â€
â€“USA Today

â€œA superbly executed, good-hearted farce that is part romance and part mystery . . . With Tanâ€™s many talents on display, itâ€™s her idiosyncratic wit and sly observations . . . that make this book pure pleasure.â€
â€“San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear.

With picaresque characters and mesmerizing imagery, Saving Fish from Drowning gives us a voice as idiosyncratic, sharp, and affectionate as the mothers of The Joy Luck Club. Bibi is the observant eye of human natureâ€“the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them. In the end, Tan takes her readers to that place in their own heart where hope is found.

â€œAmy Tan is among our great storytellers.â€
â€“The New York Times Book Review

â€œAmy Tan has created an almost magical adventure that, page by page, becomes a metaphor for human relationships.â€
â€“Isabel Allende

â€œWith humor, ruthlessness, and wild imagination, Tan has reaped [a] fantastic tale of human longings and (of course) their consequences.â€
â€“Elle

â€œA book thatâ€™s easy to read and hard to forget.â€
â€“Newsweek
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780345464019
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2006-09-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345464019

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780345464019
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2006-09-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345464019

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