Burmese Lessons: A Love Story
- ISBN-10
- 0307372782
- ISBN-13
- 9780307372789
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-29
- Publisher
- Random House Canada
- Author
- Karen Connelly
Description
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.
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