Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Binding : Taschenbuch, Label : Picador, Publisher : Picador, NumberOfItems : 1, medium : Taschenbuch, numberOfPages : 344, publicationDate : 2000-09-01, authors : Pham, Andrew X., languages : english, ISBN : 0312267177

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Catfish and Mandala
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. 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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