Saving Fish from Drowning (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Amy Tan Paperback Book

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Rent Saving Fish from Drowning (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Author: Amy Tan

Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3, Abridged-CD

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: Sep 2006

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $17.00

Pages: 512

Synopsis

During an ill-fated trip to Myanmar, eleven American tourists are abducted by a renegade tribe that believes that Rupert, a surly teenager with the group, is the reincarnation of their god Younger White Brother, who has returned to save them from their country's militaristic government, in a novel narrated by the ghost of the murdered woman who had set up the trip. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 350,000 first printing.

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