Thant Myint-U
Summary: "How did one of the world's "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor's 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor's 2018)? Less than a decade ago, the world cheered as a dictatorship crumbled and internationally beloved Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emergedfrom twenty years of house arrest. Yet just three years after her landslide victory at the polls, the country stands accused of war crimes and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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Summary: Thant tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006