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Pham A Catfish And Mandala

by Andrew Pham
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780006552239
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Pages: 352
  • Original Price: GBP 11.99
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 257 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Essays & Travelogues

Vietnamese-born Andrew Pham finally returns to Saigon, not as a success showering money and gifts onto his family, but as an emotional shipwreck, desperate to find out who he really is. When his sister, a post-operative transsexual, committed suicide, Pham sold all 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. At first meant to facilitate forgetfulness, Pham's travels turn into an unforgettable, eye-opening search for cultural identity which flashes back to his parent's courtship in Vietnam, his father's imprisonment by the Vietcong, and his family's nail-bitingly narrow escape as boat people. Lucid, witty and beautifully written,

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