@article{308766,
      recid = {308766},
      author = {Tan, Amy.},
      title = {Saving fish from drowning /},
      publisher = {Putnam,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xv, 474 p. ;},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {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?},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/308766},
}