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Also by Amy Tan:

The Valley of Amazement, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Kitchen God's Wife, October 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Saving Fish from Drowning, October 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Tails of Devotion, March 2006
Hardcover
Saving Fish From Drowning, October 2005
Hardcover
The Opposite Of Fate, October 2004
Paperback
The Bonesetter's Daughter, February 2003
Paperback (reprint)
Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat, September 2001
Paperback
The Best American Short Stories 1999, November 1999
Paperback
The Hundred Secret Senses, July 1998
Paperback
The Moon Lady, November 1995
Paperback
The Joy Luck Club, April 1990
Paperback (reprint)

SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING
By: Amy Tan

A provocative new novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter.

Putnam
October 2005
496 pages
ISBN: 0399153012
Hardcover
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Contemporary

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.

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