This text aims to provide insights into the daily lives of people of the traumatized and often forgotten land of Burma, through personal contacts over a wide range of Burmese society, in urban centres, monasteries and hilltribe villages.
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White Orchid Press has published many interesting and informative books on Southeast Asia; unfortunately, Julie Sell's is not among them. Sell promises an insight into what she calls the 'little known country' of Burma through the accounts of people on the street. Some reading this might protest that Burma is all-too-well understood. Even so, neither to those new to Burma nor those who have read much already about the country and its peoples is this book likely to offer any genuine insight. While the book may yet have some value in contributing to the quantity of debate upon Burma, those interested in understanding Burma or empathising with its peoples may well do better to turn to Rory Maclean's Under the Dragon or Christina Fink's Living in Silence; in my opinion, two of the best books, both readily available, for attaining this end.
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A real eye-opener!
16 Oct 2000
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I had heard Julie Sell discuss this book on Fresh Air (NPR) and it really caught my attention. What a fascinating bunch of people. The book went into much more depth, obviously, then the 1 hour interview, so I was thrilled to read it. In the epilogue, Ms. Sell mentions her last trip while the Kosovo conflict was occuring. It was heartbreaking to read how the Burmese people believed NATO would soon be rescuing them, just as they were doing for the people of Kosovo. She couldn't tell them the truth...I don't blame her. Anyway, a fantastic story of a hidden culture.
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