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Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent by Wendy Law-Yone
Category: Biography Memoir
POLITICIAN - PRISONER - PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars. Her resounding victory at the polls, and re-election to office as civilian head of state, wer ...Show more
Golden Parasol by Wendy Law-Yone
Category: Biography
At the time of Burma's military coup in 1962, Wendy Law-Yone was fifteen. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of The Nation newspaper, she'd grown up amidst the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma. But on the eve of her studies abroad, her father was arrested, his newspaper sh ...Show more
The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone
Category: Fiction
A startlingly fresh story of a young woman's reluctant homecoming. Na Ga was always in search of a better life. But now she sits, alone, in a hotel room in Wanting, a godforsaken town on the Chinese-Burmese border. Plucked from her wild life as a rural eel-catcher, Na Ga is first abandoned by her woul ...Show more
The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone
Category: Fiction
Some call it China's Wild West - a boom town on the border with Burma. In the new Chinese economy of the late 1980's, the frontier at Wanting is a magnet for outcasts and opportunists. Or the desperate - like Na Ga. To Na Ga, the town of Wanting represents not the beginning of a new life, but the end of ...Show more
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