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Miss Burma
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Author : Charmaine Craig
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2017-05-02
Miss Burma written by Charmaine Craig and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-02 with Fiction categories.
“Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. 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. Years later, 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. “At once beautiful and heartbreaking . . . An incredible family saga.” —Refinery29 “Miss Burma charts both a political history and a deeply personal one—and of those incendiary moments when private and public motivations overlap.” —Los Angeles Times
Miss Burma
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Author : Charmaine Craig
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2018-11
Miss Burma written by Charmaine Craig and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11 with Burma categories.
A powerful and epic novel that follows one prominent Burmese family struggling to overcome war and political repression while trying to build a meaningful life.
Miss Burma
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Author : Charmaine Craig
language : es
Publisher: Ediciones BAILE DEL SOL
Release Date : 2021-03-11
Miss Burma written by Charmaine Craig and has been published by Ediciones BAILE DEL SOL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-11 with Fiction categories.
Después de la guerra, las autoridades británicas alcanzan un acuerdo con los nacionalistas birmanos, liderados por Aung San, cuyo partido obtiene el control del estado. Cuando Aung San es asesinado, su sucesor ignora las súplicas por el autogobierno del pueblo Karen y otros grupos étnicos y, al hacerlo, desencadena la que se convertirá en la guerra civil de más larga duración registrada en la historia. La hija mayor de Benny y Khin, Louisa, tiene una infancia tempestuosa y llena de peligro, y alcanza la popularidad como la primera reina de belleza de Birmania poco antes de que el país caiga en la dictadura. Mientras Louisa navega por su nueva fama, se ve obligada a considerar el pasado de su familia, los continuos negocios encubiertos de Occidente en su país y su propia lealtad a la causa del pueblo Karen. Basada en la historia de la madre y los abuelos de la autora, Miss Burma es un retrato cautivador del surgimiento de la Birmania moderna y de la vida de la gente común avasallada en la lucha por la autodeterminación y la libertad. "Miss Burma sirve como una recalibración muy necesaria de la historia, una que corrige el desequilibrio narrativo al colocar otros puntos de vista étnicos, no birmanos, en el centro de su relato... Al reinventar las vidas extraordinarias de su madre y sus abuelos, Craig produce algunos pasajes de descripción exquisitamente precisa... Al resucitar voces que rara vez se escuchan en un escenario más amplio, la novela de Craig... trae una de las muchas historias perdidas de Birmania a la vida vívida. " The New York Times Book Review
The Good Men
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Author : Charmaine Craig
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2003-03-04
The Good Men written by Charmaine Craig and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-04 with Fiction categories.
In fourteenth-century France, a young woman from the mountain village of Montaillou was tried for heresy by the Catholic inquisition. Her name was Grazida Lizier and, by her own confession, her “joy was shared” with the wrong man: the village rector.
Miss Burma
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Author : Charmaine Craig
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Miss Burma written by Charmaine Craig and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with Fiction categories.
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.
Cat And Nat S Mom Truths
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Author : Catherine Belknap
language : en
Publisher: Harmony
Release Date : 2019-03-12
Cat And Nat S Mom Truths written by Catherine Belknap and has been published by Harmony this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-12 with Family & Relationships categories.
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Hilarious best friends Cat and Nat created a massive online community of moms by sharing their ultra-real and just a bit R-rated dispatches from the mom trenches. From what not to eat a few days after giving birth (chicken wings) to the most effective ways to dodge post-partum sex, Cat & Nat’s Mom Truths shares everything no one will tell you about having kids. Mixing memoir, humor, and advice, Cat and Nat tell never-before-told stories about the stress, guilt, joy, and laundry (oh the laundry!) of being a mom in their first book. With seven kids between them and millions of fans on social media, they get real about the parts of parenting that somehow don’t make the Instagram feed. Sharing their outrageous humor, fearless myth-busting, and genuine comfort on every page, they walk you from pregnancy to the toddler years and beyond. And they dole out ridiculously honest advice, like what you think you need at the hospital when you have your first baby (lip gloss) versus what you actually need (hemorrhoid pillow), and how worried you should really be about germs (less than you are). Fearless crusaders against the perfection myth and all the gluten-free, sugar-free baking it entails, Cat and Nat assure you that you’re already doing a great job, making this an essential companion for moms everywhere.
The River Of Lost Footsteps
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Author : Thant Myint-U
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-02-03
The River Of Lost Footsteps written by Thant Myint-U and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-03 with History categories.
Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world. Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future. In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U 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 courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. Through their stories and others, he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism, the devastation of World War II, a sixty-year civil war that continues today, military repression and the immergence of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal and global, a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible and enthralling. Thant Myint-U is the author of Where China Meets India and has written articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New Statesman.
Between Enemies
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Author : Andrea Molesini
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2015-11-05
Between Enemies written by Andrea Molesini and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Fiction categories.
November 1917. When Austrian forces advance into Northern Italy, the aristocratic Spada family find their estate requisitioned by enemy soldiers. A cruel act of violence against a group of local village girls sparks their desire for revenge. The whole family - from the eccentric grandparents to the secretive servants - have their own ideas about how to fight the enemy, but their courage is soon put to the test and it seems that some are willing to compromise. Seventeen-year-old Paolo Spada, the youngest member of the family, is forced to bear witness as his once proud family succumbs to acts of love and hate, jealousy and betrayal.
Life Ceremony
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Author : Sayaka Murata
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2022-07-14
Life Ceremony written by Sayaka Murata and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-14 with Fiction categories.
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eating them and then procreating. Published in English for the first time, this exclusive edition also includes the story that first brought Sayaka Murata international acclaim: 'A Clean Marriage', which tells the story of a happily asexual couple who must submit to some radical medical procedures if they are to conceive a longed-for child. Mixing taboo-breaking body horror with feminist revenge fables, old ladies who love each other and young women finding empathy and transformation in unlikely places, Life Ceremony is a wild ride to the outer edges of one of the most original minds in contemporary fiction.
Beneath The Lion S Gaze
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Author : Maaza Mengiste
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-03-04
Beneath The Lion S Gaze written by Maaza Mengiste and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-04 with Fiction categories.
The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow King Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement-a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia. Emotionally gripping, poetic and indelibly tragic, Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a transcendent story that tells a gripping story of family and of the bonds of love and friendship. It is a story about the lengths to which human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution.