She has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film.
The novel explores the hidden strengths of the tourists, set in the uneasy political situation in Burma.Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美 pinyin: Tán Ēnměi born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American. The story is told through the omniscient first person narrative of Bibi Chen, the tour leader who unexpectedly dies before the trip takes place and who continues to watch over her friends as they journey towards their fate. The story concerns a group of American tourists travelling the Burma Road from China to Myanmar, and the comic confusions that occur when they are kidnapped by a group of Karen people who believe one of the American teenagers to be a prophesied savior the Americans, for their part, are not even aware they are being kidnapped.
messages from the unseen world." However, in an interview, she recants this explanation and claims that she actually made up the story of Bibi Chen, the protagonist whose story was supposedly passed along through automatic writing. The novel was awarded an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.Īmy Tan says in her "Note to the Reader" that she drew inspiration for her work from a collection of " Automatic writing. The book is about twelve American tourists who travel to China and Burma. Saving Fish From Drowning is a 2005 novel written by Amy Tan.
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