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Our Home In Myanmar

$27.99

Our Home In Myanmar

SKU: 9780648914228 Category: Product ID: 199931

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Title: Our Home In Myanmar
Author: MUDDITT JESSICA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/04/2021
Imprint: INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED
Price: $27.99
Publishing status: Active

Myanmar shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century.

After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement.

Jessica joins a small team of old-hand expat editors at The Myanmar Times, whose Burmese editor is still languishing in prison. Whether she is covering a speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, getting dangerously close to cobras, directing cover shoots with Burmese models, or scaling Bagans thousand-year-old temples, Jessica is entranced and challenged by a country undergoing rapid change.

But as the historic elections of 2015 draw near, it becomes evident that the road to democracy is full of twists, turns and false starts. The couple is blindsided when a rise in militant Buddhism takes a personal turn and challenges their belief that they have found a home in Myanmar.

ISBN: 9780648914228