Name: Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam [Idioma Inglés]
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Author: Pham, Andrew X.
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam [Idioma Inglés]

Type

Physical Book

Author

Andrew X. Pham

Publisher

Picador

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

344

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.0 x 2.2 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN

0312267177

ISBN13

9780312267179

Edition No.

Synopsis "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam [Idioma Inglés] "

Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Whiting Writers' AwardA Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story 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. Andrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His father had been a POW of the Vietcong; his family came to America as "boat people." Following the suicide of his sister, Pham quit his job, sold all of his possessions, and embarked on a year-long bicycle journey that took him through the Mexican desert; on a thousand-mile loop from Narita in South Korea to Kyoto in Japan; and, after five months and 2,357 miles, to Saigon, where he finds "nothing familiar in the bombed-out darkness." In Vietnam, he's taken for Japanese or Korean by his countrymen, except, of course, by his relatives, who doubt that as a Vietnamese he has the stamina to complete his journey ("Only Westerners can do it"); and in the United States he's considered anything but American. A vibrant, picaresque memoir written with narrative flair and an eye-opening sense of adventure, Catfish and Mandala is an unforgettable search for cultural identity.

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