Catfish and Mandala

Andrew Pham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2000
Flamingo (Verlag)
978-0-00-257184-5 (ISBN)

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Vietnamese-born Andrew Pham finally returns to Saigon, not as a success showering money and gifts onto his family, but as an emotional shipwreck, desperate to find out who he really is. When his sister, a post-operative transsexual, committed suicide, Pham sold all his possessions and embarked on a year-long bicycle journey that took him through the Mexican desert; around a thousand-mile loop from Narita to Kyoto in Japan; and, after five months and 2,357 miles, to Saigon, where he finds "nothing familiar in the bombed-out darkness". At first meant to facilitate forgetfulness, Pham's travels turn into an unforgettable, eye-opening search for cultural identity which flashes back to his parent's courtship in Vietnam, his father's imprisonment by the Vietcong, and his family's nail-bitingly narrow escape as "boat people". Lucid, witty and beautifully written, This text evokes a Vietnam you can almost smell and taste, laying bare the psyche of a troubled hero whose search for home and identity becomes our own.

Andrew X Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 and moved to California with his family after the war. He lives in San Jose, California. This is his first book.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.5.2000
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Reiseführer ► Asien ► Vietnam
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-00-257184-6 / 0002571846
ISBN-13	978-0-00-257184-5 / 9780002571845
Zustand	Neuware