{"product_id":"0399153012","title":"Saving Fish from Drowning","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"GP Putnam's Sons \u0026 Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":49077598748862,"sku":"0399153012-3","price":9.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/61NGCaImndL.jpg?v=1789751354","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0399153012","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}