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<p><P><b>Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize</b><p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of the Year</b><p><b>Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award</b><p><b>A <i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</i> Best Book of the Year</b><P><i>Catfish and Mandala</i> is the story of an American odyssey&#8212;a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam&#8212;made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. <P>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 h

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Author

Andrew X. Pham, Tim Krabbé

Publisher

Picador : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374119744

Category

travel

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Travel

Rating

3.93 / 5 (4,066 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14