HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Tan, Amy.     Subjects     Tourists -- Crimes against -- Fiction.     Americans -- Burma -- Fiction.     Missing persons -- Fiction.     Burma -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tan, Amy.       by title:      Saving fish from dro...         MARC Display

Saving fish from drowning / Amy Tan. by Tan, Amy. New York : Ballantine Books, 2006. Subjects Tourists -- Crimes against -- Fiction.   Americans -- Burma -- Fiction.   Missing persons -- Fiction.   Burma -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780345464019 (pbk.) : 034546401X (pbk.) : Description:  xv, 496 p. ; 21 cm. Edition:  Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed. Requests:  0 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?   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status Due Date   Hanapepe Public Library Adult Fiction Tan   Checked out 07/03/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Fiction Tan   Checked out 07/07/2024 Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library Adult Fiction Tan Pap Lost 10/30/2012 Add Copy to MyList Waianae Public Library Adult Fiction Tan   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waimea Public Library (Kauai) Adult Fiction Tan   Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.