Burmese Lessons is a love story. Unlike conventional love stories, this one takes the reader into a world as dangerous and heartbreaking as it is enchanting. When Karen Connelly finds herself in Burma in the late 1990s, she is immersed in a world of students staging mass demonstrations in opposition to Burma's dictators, revolutionaries fighting an armed insurgency against that same military regime, and refugees living in hellish limbo in Thailand. Connelly first comes to love a wounded, remarkably beautiful country, then a gifted man who has given his life to its struggle for political change. Burmese Lessons is illuminated by the sensual language and flashes of humour that have won her fans around the world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
ISBN-10
0385528000
ISBN-13
9780385528009
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183189923
Product Key Features
Format
Sewn,PAPER over Boards,With Dust Jacket, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Travel & Holiday Guides: General
Author
Karen Connelly
Additional Product Features
Country of Publication
India
Author Biography
KAREN CONNELLY's first novel, The Lizard Cage, won the 2007 Orange Broadband Award for New Writers. Her first book, The Dream of a Thousand Lives, won the Governor General's Literary Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2001.