{"product_id":"catfish-and-mandala-book-andrew-x-pham-9780312267179","title":"Catfish and Mandala","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Whiting Writers' Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatfish and Mandala\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A vibrant, picaresque memoir written with narrative flair and an eye-opening sense of adventure, \u003ci\u003eCatfish and Mandala\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable search for cultural identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49538353889553,"sku":"CIN0312267177G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49726158864657,"sku":"CIN0312267177A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49740203622673,"sku":"GOR001463477","price":5.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50246024102161,"sku":"GOR001485707","price":4.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50555167310097,"sku":"GOR002314047","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50761752609041,"sku":"CIN0312267177VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000840192273,"sku":"NIN9780312267179","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51529625796881,"sku":"GOR014317867","price":5.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312267177.jpg?v=1751390897","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/catfish-and-mandala-book-andrew-x-pham-9780312267179","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}