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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionseBook editionsCatfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnamby Andrew Pham
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A 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. 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, around a thousand-mile loop from Narita 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. Book News Annotation:Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967, moved with his family to
California, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. Here he chronicles his
return to Vietnam, his travels on a rickety bicycle, and his search
for cultural identity. While his father's time in a communist
reeducation camp is discussed, the heart of the narrative is Pham's
depiction of his five- month journey in Vietnam.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) About the AuthorAndrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 and moved to California with his family after the war. He lives in San Jose, California. This is his first book. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 1 comment:
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