Showing Burmese Lessons: A true love story by Karen Connelly

HardCover Pub Date: 2010. Pages: 400 in Publisher: of Nan A. Talese Please note the pages on this book have been produced with bevelled or rough edge to the create an old style look The publisher has deliberately chosen to produce the book this way. Orange Prize-winner Karen Connelly's compelling memoir about her journey to Burma. where she fell in love with a leader of the Burmese rebel army. When Karen Connelly goes to Burma in 1996 to gather information for a series of articles. she discovers a place of unexpected beauty and generosity. She also encounters a country ruled by a utal military dictatorship that imposes a code of censorship and terror. Carefully seeking out the regime's critics. she witnesses mass demonstrations. attends protests. interviews detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and flees from police. When it gets too risky for her to stay. Connelly fli...