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The Coffin Tree by Wendy Law-Yone
A young woman, the daughter of a powerful political revolutionary, and her half-brother flee their native Burma following a political coup and arrive in New York, ill-prepared to cope with their new...
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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
A startlingly complex novel, The Glass Palace opens with a literal bang, as British cannons thunder over the noise of a busy Burmese marketplace in 1885. A historical work that sweeps over a century...
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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe
A touching memoir that traces the life of a young man from a tribal village in Burma. Thwe comes of age amidst political and economic turmoil, from his experiences as a student rebel and surviving the...
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The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U
Interweaving his own multigenerational family history, Thant thoughtfully presents the troubled story of his homeland from ancient times to its colonized modern legacy. Thant’s grandfather, U Thant,...
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The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher
With amazingly effective simplicity, artist Guy Delisle takes you to Burma through an ex-pat’s perspective. He arrives with his wife, a Médecins San Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) aid worker,...
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I Live Here by Mia Kirschner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael...
A genre-defying four-book documentary that captures the raw lives of refugees surviving war in Chechnya, the deadly sex-trade along the Burma/Thai border, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi....
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Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
Inspired by three years of living in Thailand with her family and visiting refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border, Mitali Perkins’ latest novel follows the lives of two boys on opposite sides of a...
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker, translated by Kevin...
I think I will forever remember this book, perhaps not so much for the story, but for a single word: a blind young man sitting in the dark with hands running across the pages answers when asked what...
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I See the Sun in Myanmar (Burma) by Dedie King, illustrated by Judith...
Welcome to Myanmar, the latest stopover in the bilingual I See the Sun series from internationally-minded boutique press Satya House. This sixth installment again reinforces the series’ focus: as...
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A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker, translated by Kevin Wiliarty
Every once in a while, only the very best schmaltz will do. Earnest and endearing, this just-arriving-in-translation sequel to the international mega-bestseller, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, is a...
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