The 15 best books about Myanmar

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We end our series about this extraordinary country by browsing the best books about Myanmar and the insights offered on your sides

Before I visit a country, I would be happy to read one or two books about the travel destination to get a feeling for the place and culture. For Myanmar it had to be George Orwell's Burmese Days, a dark and fascinating insight into the British colonial burma and the disgust that Orwell felt to the system, the part of which it was.

As with Orwell's novel, a large part of the Birmanic modern literature is intertwined with the complex history of the country: conquered by the Mongols, colonized by the British, occupied by the Japanese and then ruled from 1962 to 2011 by a oppressive military junta.

Understandably, writers have concentrated on the shadows of crew, brutality and nepotism for decades. Today, however, the poets, authors and journalists in the country write with unprecedented freedom and look into a future full of hope, optimism and democracy.

We present our view of the best books about Myanmar, which are not listed in any specific order below.

The best books about Myanmar

1. from the land of the Green Spirits of Pascal Khoo Thwedie Astonishing History of Education of a young man in a remote tribe village in the Burma of the 1930s and his journey from a country broken up by unrest to the quiet quarter of Cambridge.
2. Letters from Burmaby Aung San Suu Kyis collection of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. In these astonishing letters, Suu Kyi extends beyond Burma's borders to convey a lively and moving picture of her home country to her readers.
3. The Piano Tunervon Daniel Mason1886 gets the piano stimmer Edgar Drake an unusual request to leave his calm English life and travel to the Burma jungle to repair a rare piano. This is how an extraordinary journey over the country to Burma begins, accompanied by an enchanting but difficult -to -grapping woman.
4. The Glass Palacevon Amitav Ghoshvon, who was eliminated by the MAN Booker Prize von Sea of ​​Poppies, comes the story of Rajkumar, a boy who works at a market stall in front of the royal palace when the British force the Burmese royal family into exile. The glass palace is a rousing story of Burma and Malaya over a period of 100 years, which has rightly become a modern classic.
5. The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burmaby That Myint-u Thanint-u tells the story of modern Burma, partly through the story of the history of his own family in a interwoven story that is alternately lyrical, dramatic and terrifying.
6. Burmese Days by George Orwell This modern classic from the last days of British colonialism in Burma is "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj". The focus is on John Flory, "the lonely and missing individual that is trapped in a larger system that undermines the better side of human nature".
7. The road to wanting by Wendy Law-Yonena Ga was always looking for a better life. But now she is sitting alone in a hotel room in Wanting, a city of God on the Chinese-Burmese border. Torn from her rural life, Na Ga is suspended in Rangun. Later she follows the dream of a new life in Thailand, where further betrayal and violations are waiting for her.
8. under the kite: A journey through Burmavon Rory Macleannach of the brutal suppression of an unarmed national uprising took Rory Maclean the opportunity to visit Burma. When he traveled from Rangoon into the heart of the golden triangle, he heard stories of simple people who fought for survival under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in the world.
9. Fish Before drowning Amy Tanin of this popular fiction, 11 Americans leave their resort in the southern Shan State in Burma for a tour on Santa morning-and disappear. Through the turns of fate, curses and simply human failure, you will find yourself lost deep in the Burmese jungle.
10. looking for George Orwell in Burmavon Emma Larkinin to tell this captivating memoirs about the year in which she traveled through Burma, using George Orwell's life and work as a compass, which many intellectuals from Burmas call "the prophets".
11. Freedom of Fear and other writings by Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyis - published by her late husband, whom the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma - reflect her greatest hopes and fears for her compatriots and their concern about the need against international cooperation in the constant struggle for Burma's freedom.
12. Golden Earth: Travel in Burmaby Norman Lewisnorman Lewis describes a country of breathtaking natural beauty. Lewis drives with the army and traveling merchants by hitchhiking and is spoiled everywhere in this country who was looking for the war with hospitality and reveals a country in which "the state of the soul replaces the stock exchange as a topic for polite conversations".
13. Harp of Burmaby Michio Takeyamaharp of Burma is Japan's urgent answer to Germany's requiem for the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front. Harp of Burma portrays a company of Japanese troops that lose a desperate campaign against the British armed forces in the tropical jungle of Burma.
14. Burma Chroniclesvon Guy Delisleguy Delisles travel report revolves around a year that he spent with his wife and son in Burma. This unique and unusual comic collection is an impressive and moving journalistic work.
fifteen. The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly Teza once electrified the people in Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. In the days of the mass protests arrested by the Burmanian secret police, he sits in solitary confinement for seven years to 20 years, cut off from his family and contact with other prisoners.
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