Un lugar llamado nada

✍ Scribed by Conde, Claudia;Tan, Amy

• Publisher: Planeta Internacional
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 311 KB
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Fiction
• City: Barcelona, Burma,Burma.
• ISBN-13: 9780399153013

✦ Synopsis

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? Amy Tan.

✦ Subjects

Burma