03014cam a2200421 i 4500 532103438 TxAuBib 050502s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005048724 9780399153013 hardcover; alk. paper 0399153012 hardcover; alk. paper 9780399153013 (OCoLC)60373545 DLC eng DLC BAKER IH9 VP@ XY4 IXA NSB MBB LMR BTCTA YDXCP CQU GC9 T7R ZHP OCLCF P4I OVY OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCL OCLCO TxAuBib rda Tan, Amy. Saving fish from drowning. Saving fish from drowning / Amy Tan. New York : Putnam, 2005. xv, 474 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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? Americans Burma Fiction. Americans. Missing persons Fiction. Missing persons. Tourists Fiction. Tourists. Burma Fiction. Burma. Suspense fiction. Miscellaneous fiction. Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0717/2005048724-s.html Sample text https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0717/2005048724-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0717/2005048724-d.html Publisher description