The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma - Brossura

Thant Myint-U

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374531161 ISBN 13: 9780374531164

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008

Riassunto

Retraces the complex and turbulent story of Burma, from the time of Portuguese pirates to the sixty-year-old civil war that continues today, in an insightful narrative that portrays Burma's rise and decline through the stories of the author's family and others. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Thant Myint-U, born in 1966, was educated at Harvard and Cambridge. He has served on United Nations peacekeeping operations in Cambodia and Bosnia, and was more recently the head of policy planning in the UN Department of Political Affairs.

Product Description:

The author 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.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0374531161
• ISBN 13: 9780374531164
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 388