The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U

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The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
Thant Myint-U
Page: 400
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780374707903
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma

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Overview

For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma--through sanctions and tourist boycotts--only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about the present and even its future? In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U 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 ...