Amy Tan
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| Title | : | Saving Fish from Drowning |
| Author | : | Amy Tan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Ballantine Reader's Circle |
| Pages | : | Pages: 472 pages |
| Published | : | September 26th 2006 by Ballantine Books (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China. Asia. Literature. Asian Literature. Novels. Contemporary |
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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 nature–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.
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| Original Title: | Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel |
| ISBN: | 034546401X (ISBN13: 9780345464019) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Bibi Chen |
| Setting: | Myanmar Burma |
| Literary Awards: | Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction Honor (2005) |
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I'm a huge fan of Amy Tan, and this book was a disappointment. Saving Fish from Drowning was outside of her voice and style, and unlike her previous novels, it took me forever to get into it. I finally finished after forcing myself to do so. Perhaps it's that I've come to expect her typical style that mixes magic, relationships, lessons learned and insight to Asian cultural. You could argue that Saving Fish from Drowning included those elements. However, I feel those pieces were not entwinedOh Good Lord! What an awful waste of time!This was a torture to finish, but I was really holding out for an ending that would make the misery worth while. But nay - that was not to be the case.Here was an opportunity for a dozen world travelers to have an adventure. And they may have had one, but it HAD to be more interesting than the telling we got from Amy. Even the sexual escapades were boring. How can that be? How were these people so boring AND so gullible? The characters were not
i listened to this on audio, read by the author. i love amy tan, but they really should have found a professional reader. ms. tan has several different characters with british or australian accents and her accents are all over the place and very distracting. that being said, the book was enjoyable. i felt like the ending dragged on a bit long (you know how most of the time, when youre done reading a book , you sit back and wonder, and then what? what happens next? well, you dont have to wonder
This was an intelligently written first novel. The characters were strange and plus several of the characters you could not get a sense for until the end. The journey described was full of various adventures which left the reader wondering what is going on. But, the writing was superb. Life Lesson: We all must find our place in life for God to take over.
The Lovely Bones if it were set in China. This book is really gripping and somber, very well-written, and I'm surprised it has such low ratings, because I thought it was great. :(
This was a very enjoyable read for me! I liked how she used humour to write about injustice, and there was quite a bit of exploration of how how different people can have vastly different perspectives on the same events.
I picked this up in my library as part of a random assault on the shelves to find people I hadnt read before. (So far, a rule of thumb seems to be shelves fine, ignore stand on the way in, ignore all free standing round things, round things at end of shelves good, shelf on way out also good. On no account get anything where there are more than 6 things by the same author in one place. This may be another prejudice but Im still in library rehab, so let me be).I was quite pleased that coming home
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