From the Land of Green Ghosts A Burmese Odyssey

Name: From the Land of Green Ghosts A Burmese Odyssey
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ISBN: 9780060505233

ISBN-10: 0060505230

ISBN-13: 9780060505233

Edition: N/A

Authors: Pascal Khoo Thwe, Pascal K. Thwe

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In 1988, Dr. John Casey, a professor visiting Burma, meets a waiter in Mandalay with a passion for the works of James Joyce, and the encounter changes both their lives. Pascal, a member of the Kayan Padaung tribe, was the first member of his community to study English at a university. Within months of his meeting with Dr. Casey, Pascal's world lay in ruins. Burma's military dictatorship forces him to sacrifice his studies, and the regime's brutal armed forces murder his lover. Fleeing to the jungle, he becomes a guerrilla fighter in the life-or-death struggle against the government. In desperation, he writes a letter to the Englishman he met in Mandalay. Miraculously reaching its…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/2/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Map


Foreword




Idyll of the Tribe


Prologue: Imagined Journeys



The Goddess of Creation



Grandfather's Domain



Learning to Love the General



A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Padaung



Death of a Footballer



Hunters and Hunted



The Shaking of the Dead



A Spoiled Priest



To the Land of Green Ghosts



Revolution and Flight



'Never, Never Argue'



Moe



Worth Only One Bullet



By Courtesy of James Joyce



The Whirlwind: Moe's Fate



Slorc



The Reluctant Flight



The Great River at Last



With the Rebels



Guns and Ghosts



'Like Alcestis from the Grave'



Staying Alive



An Impossible Hope



Talking to the Enemy



Rescue



Defeat: Escape into Thailand



The Rescue



Learning Words of Civility



Gate of Humility: Cambridge



Reunions with Old Ghosts--and a Farewell



Gate of Honour: Graduation


Epilogue


Index