The Rebel of Rangoon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rebel of Rangoon write by Delphine Schrank. This book was released on 2015-07-14. The Rebel of Rangoon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 An epic, multigenerational story of courage and sacrifice set in a tropical dictatorship, The Rebel of Rangoon captures a gripping moment of possibility in Burma (Myanmar) Once the shining promise of Southeast Asia, Burma in May 2009 ranks among the world's most repressive and impoverished nations. Its ruling military junta seems to be at the height of its powers. But despite decades of constant brutality-and with their leader, the Nobel Peace Prize-laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, languishing under house arrest-a shadowy fellowship of oddballs and misfits, young dreamers and wizened elders, bonded by the urge to say no to the system, refuses to relent. In the byways of Rangoon and through the pathways of Internet cafes, Nway, a maverick daredevil; Nigel, his ally and sometime rival; and Grandpa, the movement's senior strategist who has just emerged from nineteen years in prison, prepare to fight a battle fifty years in the making. When Burma was still sealed to foreign journalists, Delphine Schrank spent four years underground reporting among dissidents as they struggled to free their country. From prison cells and safe houses, The Rebel of Rangoon follows the inner life of Nway and his comrades to describe that journey, revealing in the process how a movement of dissidents came into being, how it almost died, and how it pushed its government to crack apart and begin an irreversible process of political reform. The result is a profoundly human exploration of daring and defiance and the power and meaning of freedom.
The Rebel of Rangoon (INTL PB ED)
The Rebel of Rangoon (INTL PB ED) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rebel of Rangoon (INTL PB ED) write by Delphine Schrank. This book was released on 2015-02-03. The Rebel of Rangoon (INTL PB ED) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in the trenches of a nonviolent pro-democracy opposition in a dark and hermetically sealed country on the verge of massive transformation, The Rebel of Rangoon tracks a revolution in real time. Journalist Delphine Schrank spent four years undercover among dissidents in the Burmese underground—eavesdropping in teashops, across flickering online connections, and in mud-moated rural hamlets. Through their stories of courage and sacrifice, she explores the dilemmas and passions of Burma’s ragged and diffuse inter-generational revolutionary movement, whose existence and ultimate triumph against one of the world’s most repressive governments has remained largely submerged behind that of their globally celebrated figurehead, Aung San Suu Kyi. The Rebel of Rangoon is the story of a Sisyphean struggle against oppression, and of the ambiguities arising in the glory of its unexpected resolution. A young man in contemporary Burma— Nway—becomes a dissident and a leader in the latest generation of a movement shaped by decades of opposition to authoritarian rule. Through his tale, and the tale of his growing friendship with a great rival— Nigel—unfurls the larger story of a country’s emergence from military dictatorship, how a movement of dissidents came into being, how it almost died, and how it pushed its government to crack apart and begin an irreversible process of political reform. Schrank offers a powerful portrait of the men and women who braved it all to carry their people’s hope, never relenting in their fight for freedom.
Burma In Revolt
Burma In Revolt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burma In Revolt write by Bertil Lintner. This book was released on 2019-04-24. Burma In Revolt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explains how Burma's booming drug production, insurgency, and counter-insurgency interrelate—and why the country has been unable to shake off thirty years of military rule and build a modern, democratic society.
Miss Burma
Miss Burma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miss Burma write by Charmaine Craig. This book was released on 2017-05-02. Miss Burma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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
The Road to Rangoon
The Road to Rangoon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Road to Rangoon write by Lucy Cruickshanks. This book was released on 2015-09-03. The Road to Rangoon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1980s Burma, the British ambassador's son goes missing. Discovered in the north of the country, Michael Atwood is in imminent danger, trapped between sides fighting a bitter civil war and with no way of getting back to Rangoon. His best hope of salvation is to trust Thuza, a ruby smuggler who offers to help him escape. Beautiful and deeply scarred, Thuza has spent her entire life in a frontier town between rebel and government forces, never choosing a side but trying to make a living from both. For Thuza, the ambassador's son is her ticket out of poverty. For Than, an ambitious military officer, exploiting those caught up in the war offers an opportunity for promotion and distinction. But as all three learn to their cost, in this exotic, enigmatic and savage country, everyone has a price. This is a tale of ambition, salvation and hope that confirms Lucy Cruickshanks as a master storyteller.
