Prayer for Burma - Couverture souple

Wong, Kenneth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1891661280 ISBN 13 : 9781891661280

Editeur : Santa Monica Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kenneth Wong was born and raised in Rangoon, Burma, where he cultivated an addiction to aromatic Indian tea and an aversion to totalitarianism. He came to America at the age of twenty-one, not long after the 1988 massacre. After an unfulfilling decade in the financial industry, he decided to jump off his career path and begin making a living as a writer. He currently works as an editor for Cadence, a trade magazine dedicated to computer-aided design. Kenneth lives in San Francisco, California, surrounded by eccentric friends and boxes of books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Santa Monica Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1891661280
• ISBN 13: 9781891661280
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible