Author: Amy Tan List Price: $26.95 Pages: 496 Publisher:  Putnam Adult ISBN: 0399153012

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San Francisco socialite and art-world doyenne Bibi Chen has planned the vacation of a lifetime along the notorious Burma Road for 12 of her dearest friends. Violently murdered days before takeoff, she's reduced to watching her friends bumble through their travels from the remove of the spirit world. Making the best of it, the 11 friends who aren't hung over depart their Myanmar resort on Christmas morning to boat across a misty lake-and vanish. The tourists find themselves trapped in jungle-covered mountains, held by a refugee tribe that believes Rupert, the group's surly teenager, is the reincarnation of their god Younger White Brother, come to save them from the unstable, militaristic Myanmar government. 来自旧金山的一行十二人，准备启程前往滇缅公路旅行，领队Bibi Chen 却在出发之前离奇死忙，旅途依旧展开，而叙事人正是化成魂魄随行的Bibi。一路上除了东西文化激撞下衍生的各种惊异体验，一行人也遭到该地部落族人绑架，其中的金发青少年更被族人视为救世主转世…… About Author 1952-, American novelist, b. Oakland, Calif. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has taken for her theme the lives of Asian-Americans and the generational and cultural differences among them, concentrating on women's experiences. Tan's novels include The Joy Luck Club (1989), The Kitchen God's Wife (1991), The Hundred Secret Senses (1995), The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001), and Saving Fish from Drowning (2005). She has also written a children's book, The Moon Lady (1992), and essays, e.g., the autobiographical pieces collected in The Opposite of Fate (2003). 谭恩美，著名美籍华裔女作家。1952年出生于美国加州奥克兰，曾就读医学院，后取得语言 学硕士学位。她因处女作《喜福会》而一举成名，成为当代美国的畅销作家。著有长篇小说《 灶神之妻》、《灵感女孩》,《接骨师的女儿》和为儿童创作的《月亮夫人》、《中国暹罗猫》等。