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Miss Burma
Engelsk Hardback
Miss Burma
Engelsk Hardback

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Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2018
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction

After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country''s history.

After the war, the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, whose party gains control of the country. When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people and other ethnic groups, and in doing so sets off what will become the longest-running civil war in recorded history. Benny and Khin''s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma''s first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family''s past, the West''s ongoing covert dealings in her country and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people.

Based on the story of the author''s mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781611856248
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1611856248
Udg. Dato:
15 mar 2018
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
221mm
Forlag:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Oplagsdato:
15 mar 2018
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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