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Miss Burma
Charmaine Craig
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the ... Read more
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Condition
New
Publication date
2018
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781611855074
SKU
9781611855074
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Charmaine Craig
Charmaine Craig is a faculty member in the Department of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, and the descendant of significant figures in Burma's modern history. A former actor in film and television, she studied literature at Harvard University and received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her first novel, The Good Men, was a national bestseller translated into ... Read more
Reviews for Miss Burma
Spanning generations and multiple dictators, Craig's epic novel provides a rich, complex account of Burma and its place within the larger geopolitical theater . . . The language and the images unfold with grace, horror, and intimacy.
Publishers Weekly
Rich and layered, a complex weaving of national and personal trauma . . . Craig has written a captivating ... Read more
Publishers Weekly
Rich and layered, a complex weaving of national and personal trauma . . . Craig has written a captivating ... Read more