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Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
by Andrew X. PhamCatfish and Mandala : Read More
- Author: Andrew X. Pham
- Genres: travel, memoir, asia, biography, history, adventure, autobiography
- Places: San Jose, California, San Francisco, California, Tokyo
- Awards: Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2000), Oregon Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (Finalist) (2000), Kiriyama Prize for Nonfiction (1999)
- Release date: September 2, 2000
- ISBN: 9780312267179 (0312267177)
- Publisher: Picador USA
- Format: paperback, 344 pages
- Language: english
About The Book
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.
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