Saving Fish from Drowning
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,...
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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." Amy Tan's novel of 11 Americans stranded in Burma possesses the resonance of the fable of the Burmese fisherman. Another compelling fiction by the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781440627606 (1440627606)
Publish date: October 18th 2005
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
China
While I do understand the feeling that many readers may share that a particular writer should stick with "her" characters, "her" plot lines and should never stray, I can certainly understand why a writer would want to stretch beyond her boundaries. Or his boundaries, as the case may be.Writing is as...
As fun as this was to read, being part travelogue, part ghost story and part study of Americans in a strange land, I wasn't as hooked or charmed with this story as I have been with many of her others.
A bit outside Tan's usual scope. Not bad, but not great, either.
12 years ago
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