Saving Fish from Drowning ~ SIGNED
by AMY TAN
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0399153012
- ISBN 13
- 9780399153013
- Seller
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Daphne, Alabama, United States
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About This Item
New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Brand new, never read. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Personally flat signed by the author directly to the full title page. Not a tip in. Not a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for years of worry free reading/collecting! Photos available upon request. A provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter. On an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour and disappear. Through twists of fate, curses, and just plain human error, they find themselves deep in the jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime. Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a fagade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions both good and bad and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others. 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."
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- Bookseller
- Books On The Boulevard (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 587
- Title
- Saving Fish from Drowning ~ SIGNED
- Author
- AMY TAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Hardcover Signed First
- ISBN 10
- 0399153012
- ISBN 13
- 9780399153013
- Publisher
- Gp Putnam's Sons & Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Burma; Dragons & Mythical Creatures; Fantasy; Feminine; Fiction; Literary; Missing persons; Myanmar (Burma); Suspense fiction; Tourists; Visionary & Metaphysical, signed, collectible, autographed, novel, joy luck club
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