Karen Connelly
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Karen Connelly goes to Burma in 1996 to gather information for a series of articles, she discovers a place of unexpected beauty and generosity. She also encounters a country ruled by a brutal military dictatorship that imposes a code of censorship and terror. Carefully seeking out the regime's critics, she witnesses mass demonstrations, attends protests, interviews detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and flees from police. When it gets...