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Twilight Over Burma
Inge Sargent
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Description for Twilight Over Burma
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill.M. BIC Classification: 1FMB; BGHA; HBJF; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
Just married and returning to live in her new husband's native land, a young Austrian woman arrived with her Burmese husband by passenger ship in Rangoon in 1953. They were met at dockside by hundreds of well-wishers displaying colorful banners, playing music on homemade instruments, and carrying giant bouquets of flowers. She was puzzled by this unusual welcome until her embarrassed husband explained that he was something more than a recently graduated mining engineer - he was the Prince of Hsipaw, the ruler of an autonomous state in Burma's Shan mountains. And these people were his subjects!
She immersed ... Read more
Just married and returning to live in her new husband's native land, a young Austrian woman arrived with her Burmese husband by passenger ship in Rangoon in 1953. They were met at dockside by hundreds of well-wishers displaying colorful banners, playing music on homemade instruments, and carrying giant bouquets of flowers. She was puzzled by this unusual welcome until her embarrassed husband explained that he was something more than a recently graduated mining engineer - he was the Prince of Hsipaw, the ruler of an autonomous state in Burma's Shan mountains. And these people were his subjects!
She immersed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824816285
SKU
V9780824816285
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Reviews for Twilight Over Burma
In a stirring tribute to a remarkable man and a gripping tale from beginning to end, Sargent reflects back on her loving, cross-cultural marriage to the prince of Hsipaw.... A touching memoir that would read like a fairy tale were it not for the unfortunate ending." —Booklist