Name: A Prayer for Burma (en Inglés)
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Author: Wong, Kenneth
ISBN: 9781891661280

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Kenneth Wong

Editorial

Santa Monica Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

216

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 13.9 x 1.2 cm

Peso

0.24 kg.

ISBN

1891661280

ISBN13

9781891661280

Categorías

Asia suroriental
Estudios del desarrollo
Control y libertades políticas
Economía del desarrollo y economías emergentes
Historia de asia

A Prayer for Burma (en Inglés)

Kenneth Wong (Autor) · Santa Monica Press · Tapa Blanda

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After living in the United States for over a decade, Kenneth Wong returns to his native Burma--a country fraught with political upheaval and laden with superstition--to face the cultural specters of his own past and the spirit of a land trapped in time. Sealed off from the outside world, first by an oppressive military regime's isolationism and then by economic sanctions, Burma lives on like a lingering ghost of its colonial past. A Prayer for Burma is a beautiful, stunning portrait of the country as seen and remembered by a homecoming native battling his conflicting national, cultural, ideological, ancestral, and ethnic identities. In the tradition of Orwell, Maugam, and Theroux, Wong shows Burma as an exotic place that invites, frightens, teases, and haunts citizens and visitors alike with its unique mixture of ill-kept Edwardian structures, pockmarked English mansions, and glittering Buddhist temples. And as a former Burmese rediscovering Burma--an outsider who was once an insider--Wong reveals the courage, humor, and perseverance of the Burmese people and their endearing, yet mysterious way of life.