- Publisher's page for Amy Tan
- Saving Fish from Drowning (short industry reviews & links)
- Chapter 1-- Excerpt from Saving Fish from Drowning
- Random House Reader's Guide
- A Book Club Reading Group Guide/Discussion Guide :: A different set of questions to ponder
- On YouTube video :: Amy discusses the intro to "Saving Fish from Drowning"
- NPR Audio INTERVIEW : 'Saving Fish From Drowning': A New Direction for Tan
In her new novel, Amy Tan sets a group of tourists off to Burma accompanied, in spirit, by a friend and guide named Bibi Chen -- who mysteriously dies before the start of the trip. While Chen mirrors other characters of Tan's previous novels,Saving Fish From Drowning marks a departure from Tan's stories of close-knit Chinese-American families. Lynn Neary talked with Tan about her new direction.
- Myanmar in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- From today's Times: The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma By Thant Myint-U
- Myanmar
- What is 8-8-88 ? (Burmese Internet freedom fighters)
- Myanmar: Map, History and Much More from Answers.com
2 comments:
Saving Fish From Drowning was different from any of the other books I have read by Amy Tan. I felt that she was making a political condemnation about the treatment of the Myanmar people.
I had a hard time with the book, but as I finished with it, I spent quite a bit of time on the Q&A section with the author at the end. It opened my eyes to a lot of things in the book and then the members' comments kind of brought it all together for me. It was nice because anyone who was there had a positive outlook on it instead of "I didn't like this book" and then just sit through the meeting.
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