Sense of Place Stars: Burma

Fiction and Nonfiction Titles Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction & Crime Fiction

  • The Glass Palace
    Author: Ghosh, Amitav
    Publisher: Broadway $ 24.95 ISBN: 0375501487 Date: 2001
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    A poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos to create an empire in the Burmese teak forests, Rajkumar cannot forget the girl he befriended during the British invasion of 1885 when soldiers forced the royal family into exile from the glass palace. Rajkumar then saw the woman whose love would shape his life, and later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her.
    Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars
    Updated 11/29/00
  • Piano Tuner
    Author: Mason, Daniel Philippe
    Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375414657 Date: 2002
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    A hypnotic tale of myth, romance, and self-discovery, this extraordinary fiction debut tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the 19th century, where he encounters thieves, soldiers, and an enchanting but elusive woman.
    Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction Stars | Debuts | Reading Group Stars
    Updated 8.16.02
  • Burmese Days: A Novel
    Author: Orwell, George
    Date: 1962
    Updated 6.9.05

Nonfiction

  • Finding George Orwell in Burmese Tea Shop: Travels in a Police State
    Author: Larkin, Emma
    Publisher: Gotham $ 22.95 ISBN: 1594200521 Date: 2005
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    Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
    Updated 4.19.05
  • Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma
    Author: Nicholl, Charles
    Publisher: Penguin $ 8.95 ISBN: 0140009590x Date: 1990
    Updated 6.9.05
  • Trouser People
    Author: Marshall, Andrew
    Publisher: Counterpoint $ 26 ISBN: 1582431205 Date: 2002
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    Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People is an enormously appealing and vivid account of Sir George Scott, the unsung Victorian adventurer who hacked, bullied, and charmed his way through uncharted jungle to help establish British colonial rule in Burma.
    Suggested Reading: Travel Tales
    Updated 1.31.02
  • From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
    Author: Thwe, Pascal Khoo
    Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060505222 Date: 2002
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    It was during a tour on a trip through Burma that John Casey, Cambridge don, first met Pascal Khoo Thwe, who was moon-lighting in a restaurant to support himself as a student at Mandalay University. Despite his humble beginnings and the oppression he faced, Thwe brings readers into a world forgotten by the West, but one that readers will not soon forget.
    Updated 10.30.02