Catfish and mandala : a two-wheeled voyage through the landscape and memory of Vietnam / Andrew X. Pham
- Bib ID:
- 1700755
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pham, Andrew X., 1967-
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
- 344 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0374119783 (alkaline paper)
- 0374119740 (alkaline paper)
- 0312267177 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Catfish and Mandala is the poignant, lyrical tale of an American odyssey - a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam - made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Intertwined with an often humorous travelogue spanning a year of discovery is a memoir of war, escape, and, ultimately, family secrets."--BOOK JACKET. "There is Pham's stepgrandfather Le, the fish-sauce baron of Phan Thiet, who claims his ancestors invented the condiment; his father, a POW of the Vietcong, who finally leads his family on a perilous boat journey to the land of their freedom; and his beloved sister Chi, a post-operative transsexual who commits suicide."--BOOK JACKET. "Pham deftly limns the lasting scars of the Vietnam War and the plight of a refugee family to create a haunting portrait of America, framed by the perspective of an outsider, a stranger straddling two continents."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1983
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