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Thant Myint-U. Boeken

    Thant Myint-U is de auteur van een persoonlijke geschiedenis van Birma. Zijn academische achtergrond omvat studies aan Harvard en de Universiteit van Cambridge, waar hij later geschiedenis doceerde. Zijn professionele ervaring omvat belangrijk werk met de Verenigde Naties bij vredesoperaties in Cambodja en voormalig Joegoslavië, evenals bij het VN-secretariaat in New York.

    The River of Lost Footsteps

    • The River of Lost Footsteps

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      Thant tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. Through their stories and others, he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism, the devastation of World War II, and a sixty-year civil war that continues today and is the longest-running war anywhere in the world.--From publisher description.

      The River of Lost Footsteps
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