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A carregar... Saving Fish from Drowning (edição 2006)por Amy Tan (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 2-1/2 stars. I would have liked this better if I had realized early on that a lot of it was meant to be light & amusing. I was distracted by the early introduction of apparent tragedy. ( ) Un lugar llamado nada - Amy Tan Publicado: 2005 | 444 páginas Novela Drama Doce amigos estadounidenses están a punto de emprender el viaje de su vida desde el pie del Himalaya en China hacia las selvas inexploradas de Brimania para profundizar en el arte y la cultura de ambos países. La mañana del día de Navidad,... Un lugar llamado nada Amy Tan /agwLhttHn Publicado: 2005 | 444 páginas Novela Drama Doce amigos estadounidenses están a punto de emprender el viaje de su vida desde el pie del Himalaya en China hacia las selvas inexploradas de Brimania para profundizar en el arte y la cultura de ambos países. La mañana del día de Navidad, todos menos uno inician una excursión de medio día, pero ya no regresan. Se encuentran en medio de la selva, en un poblado secreto donde se oculta una tribu medio extinguida que ve en uno de ellos a su salvador, el líder que han estado esperando para que les proteja de la violencia del régimen militar birmano. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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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? Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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