Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful
mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist
illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even
as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.
Little by little, Wilmot enters a mirror house of
illusions and hallucinations that propels him into a secret world of gangsters, greed, and murder, with his
mystery patron at the center of it all, either
as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundreds of millions, or
as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness.