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En morgen forlader Julia Wins burmesisk fødte far familiens hjem i New York dagen efter hendes juridiske embedseksamen for aldrig siden at vende tilbage. Familien er forvirret og dybt bekymret. Ingen har nogen anelse om, hvorfor han har forladt dem. Først nogle år senere finder Julias mor et ikke afsendt kærlighedsbrev til en burmesisk kvinde ved navn Mi Mi. Julia er fast besluttet på at opklare mysteriet om sin forsvundne far og hans fortid. Hun sætter sin karriere og tilværelse i New York på pause og rejser til den lille burmesiske landsby, Mi Mi engang boede i. Rejsen fører hende til den lille bjerglandsby Kalaw. På en café i byen kontaktes hun af en mand, som hævder at kende hendes far, og som tilsyneladende ved en masse om Julia. Han fortæller en utrolig beretning om hendes fars ungdom – blandt andet om hans lidenskabelige forhold til den lokale handicappede pige Mi Mi. I begyndelsen har Julia svært ved at tro, at den romantiske skikkelse i fortællingen er den samme som hendes følelsesmæssigt reserverede far, men snart går det op for hende, at han har gemt på en mystisk fortid og en kærlighedshistorie, der overgår alt. ”DEN BEDSTE BOG JEG HAR LÆST I ÅREVIS”, ”LÆS DEN! DU BLIVER IKKE SKUFFET”, ”DU VIL ELSKE DENNE BOG” – nettet bugner af begejstrede mund til mund-anbefalinger af denne roman til primært kvinder, der holder af en stærk kærlighedshistorie som f.eks. Broerne i Madison County, og som også kan finde på at læse f.eks. Spis, bed, elsk og Drageløberen, fordi de ud over en god fortælling også efterspørger historier, der gør dem klogere på omverden. Romanen udspiller sig primært i Burma, som den senere tid har været i fokus efter frigivelsen af Aung San Suu Kyi, og den eksotiske baggrund danner en perfekt ramme for denne fantastiske kærlighedsroman, som udkom første gang i Tyskland i 2002, men som først fik den internationale opmærksomhed, den fortjener, da et amerikansk forlag erhvervede rettighederne og udgav den i foråret 2012 til flot omtale og et imponerende internationalt salg. ***** ”Her er en bog, der varmer … Denne roman er smuk og blid og handler om kærlighed, men også om tilgivelse og om både at forstå andre og sig selv.”– Femina***** ”Ude af øje – ikke ude af sind. Månedens bog er en smuk østerlandsk historie om en kærlighed, der vil få dit hjerte til at banke, så du ikke kan overhøre det.”– Liv

Selvstændig efterfølger til den populære roman At høre hjertet slå.Der er gået næsten ti år, siden Julia Win rejste til Burma for at lede efter sin forsvundne far. Nu er hun tilbage i New York, hvor hun har en krævende stilling som advokat. Da hun en dag midt i et vigtigt forretningsmøde hører en fremmed, sørgende kvindestemme i sit hoved, afviser hun den som stress og sorg over en nyligt opløst forlovelse. Men stemmen forsvinder ikke. Tværtimod. Og den begynder også at stille spørgsmål, som Julia har prøvet at fortrænge: Hvorfor bor du alene? Hvem føler du dig tæt på? Hvad vil du stille op med dit liv?Julias søgen efter svar driver hende tilbage til Burma og ud på en uforudset opdagelsesrejse, som drager både hende og læseren med ind i en verden fuld af mystik, fortvivlelse og et helt lands begravede grusomheder.Ligesom sin forløber er Hjertets stemme én af de bøger, læserne står i kø for at anbefale til hinanden. Som én fan siger: “… det er en af den slags forbløffende perfekte romaner, der ændrer liv. Jeg ved, at den ændrede mit. At sige, at jeg elskede den, er ren underdrivelse.”

Glæd dig til tredje og sidste bind i Jan-Philip Sendkers smukke og hjerteskærende Burma-trilogi om modgang, ukuelighed og en kærlighed, der er stærkere end alt andet. Ko Bo Bo er 12 år og bor hos sin onkel U Ba i den smukke by Kalaw i Burma. Bo Bo er en speciel dreng. Han holder sig helst for sig selv – og han har en usædvanlig evne: Han kan aflæse andre menneskers følelser i deres øjne. Hans far besøger ham kun en gang om året, og hans mor er blot et fjernt minde. Men en dag fortæller U Ba ham historien om hans forældre: To mennesker, der elsker hinanden, men hvis kærlighed er truet af politiske begivenheder – og ikke mindst af hans mors sygdom, som er omgærdet af mystik. Bo Bo beslutter sig for at drage ud for at finde sine forældre. Han er overbevist om, at han kan gøre sin mor rask. Sendker skriver i sin vanlige fængslende stil og vil uden tvivl begejstre de mange læsere, der har ventet med længsel på det sidste bind i den populære bestseller-serie.

The Political Economy of China-Myanmar Relations is a comprehensive guide that seeks to fill the gap in research on China-Myanmar relations. This book provides readers with a deeper understanding of the long-term continuity of China-Myanmar relations, which has yet to be fully explored by the academic community.

Many countries in Asia are inhabited by multi-segment societies diversified in terms of race, religion, language and economic status. They have repeatedly provided the basis for analysis of the search for consensus in the construction of a political scene that would ensure the participation in power of each group. Regardless of the chosen model, the distribution of power in multi-segment societies has always been characterized by a state of "unstable equilibrium". Practical solutions constantly evolved between consociationalism, centripetalism, federalism. In extreme cases they led to political disintegration of states or to permanent domination of one of the segments, most often based on authoritarian solutions. In this volume, a group of scholars specializing in countries of the region try to point out the dynamics of the "unstable equilibrium" of power sharing in particular Asian countries and analyze the trends occurring in them in the 21st century.

This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history, and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation between colonial Burma and Britain. Focusing on the work of the plant collector, botanical illustrator, and naturalist, Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe, this book illustrates how natural history was practised and produced by a woman working in the tropics from 1897 to 1921.Drawing on the extensive and under-studied archive of private and official correspondence, diaries, sketchbooks, photographs, paintings, and plant lists of Wheeler-Cuffe, this book advances our conceptual understanding of the 'invisible' historical geographies underpinning scientific knowledge production, by focusing on the role of a female actor in the complex gendered setting of colonial Burma. Using a bio-geographical approach, this analysis reconceptualises female agency beyond authorship and publication, and stresses how Wheeler-Cuffe represents an instantiation of the occluded contribution of women to the historiography of natural history. This book highlights Wheeler-Cuffe's production of scientific knowledge about Burma in the context of her relationship, as a white Western woman, with local, indigenous actors and details her practice of fieldwork and its embodied geographies in different parts of Burma, while she maintained the domestic superstructure of a colonial wife.This book will be of interest to advance-level students and researchers in historical and cultural geography; the history of science; feminist geography; women and natural history; colonial Burma and imperialism; and botanical art and illustration.

This book examines Japan's relationship with Myanmar from the passage of its constitution in May 2008 to the February 2021 coup d'état that finished its transition to a 'disciplined democracy.'

This book examines the trajectory of federalization in Myanmar's political development, evaluating the attitudes of different political actors towards, and negotiation strategies for, designing federalism.

Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury¿s The China Factor explores Beijing¿s political, economic, and defence relations with Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, and weighs the dividends of the bilateral relationships to better comprehend the geopolitical subtleties in the region.

Burmese-American photographer Min Lin's first trip to Burma in 1988, during an uprising, sends him on a journey of self-examination and stirs up a secret family history when he comes face-to-face with a Burmese army captain that looks just like him.

'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such were the Joys', his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys' weeklies and a spirited defence of English cooking. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative and hugely entertaining, all show Orwell's unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.

A fascinating exploration of the feats of the RAF's photographic reconnaissance aircraft.The photographic reconnaissance (PR) versions of the Supermarine Spitfire saw service against the Axis Tripartite throughout World War 2. Its superior performance even led to the USAAF adopting the type for the Eighth Air Force's reconnaissance needs in Europe. PR Spitfires were responsible for some of the most significant intelligence finds of the war - from low-level oblique photographs of new German radars in France to locating the battleship Bismarck off the Norwegian coast before it attempted to sortie into the Atlantic. It has been estimated that as much as 80 per cent of Allied intelligence was gathered from aerial photographs, many of which were taken by cameras installed in PR Spitfires.In this volume, RAF PR specialist Andrew Fletcher details the important part played by the small number of 'photo-recce' Spitfires in the key theatres of World War 2. His detailed text, which includes numerous first-hand accounts, chronicles operations from the first months of the conflict through to VJ Day.

A fascinating exploration of the dramatic battles and Allied operations to wrest back control of Burma (Myanmar) from the Japanese.The Allied reconquest of Burma was not part of Allied Grand Strategy in 1944 and 1945. It happened despite it - in particular, because of the dramatic failure of the Japanese invasion of India (Operation U-Go), which ended ignominiously for the Japanese Empire in August 1944. The reconquest was one of the longest campaigns of World War II. It comprised 11 distinct battles and offensives that were part of the overall continuum of operations that resulted in the Allied victory.Written by a foremost expert on the British Army in World War II, this superbly illustrated work details the Allied operations to retake Burma from Japanese control. Accounts of Operation Capital, the capture of Meiktila and Mandalay, the Allied advance in the Arakan, the race for Rangoon, Operation Dracula, the Battle of the Sittang Bend and Japanese breakout operations across the Pegu Yomas are supported by easy to follow 2D maps and 3D diagrams. Among the events brought to life in vivid battlescene artworks are an SOE-led ambush in Operation Character, and the famous Defence of Hill 170 in the Arakan.

The 'Fabulous Flotilla', called the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in colonial Burma, was the largest privately-owned fleet of ships in the world. It was an entirely Scottish enterprise with nearly all its investors, management and ship's officers drawn from Scotland. Fascinating personalities emerge from Strachan's descriptions of Irrawaddy commanders and the flotilla's key players. Renamed Myanmar in 1997, Burma is Scotland's 'lost colony' and the Scottish connection is little remembered today due to Burma's half a century of post-war isolation. In its 1920s heyday Burma had the highest concentration of Scots anywhere in the world, outside of Scotland, with the exception of Canada. Scots were everywhere in Burma, running everything, and even their Burmese servants spoke in 'broad' Scots. The Fabulous Flotilla provides a revealing record of this remarkable era in Burma's history and past Scottish endeavour - a jewel of a story that may soon be lost.

An Independent Best Books for Summer Pick'Powerful, lyrical, and with a central character so wracked with love, he goes to war, deeply relatable' ANN NAPOLITANO, author of Hello Beautiful'Wholly beguiling and spirited' THE TIMES'Emotionally resonant and lyrical story of one young man's heartbreak, set against the trauma of a world falling apart' IRISH TIMES'Stunning. Both an unrequited love story and a mystery. It will live with me for a long time.JENDELLA BENSONMost Anticipated Books 2023: COSMOPOLITAN, GLAMOUR, THE FLOOR, HUFFINGTON POST, THE BLACK BRITISH LIST and BRITTLE PAPERFor readers of Toni Morrison, Richard Flanagan and BURMA BOY - gripping and intimate historical novel of a black soldier's experience in the Second World War - a rare and moving tale of love and sacrifice by the acclaimed author of THE BOOK OF ECHOES.-------------------------------------One war, one soldier, one enduring love1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria on the brink of the Second World War, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep speeds by, filled with soldiers laughing and shouting, their buttons shining in the sun. To Obi, their promise of a smart uniform and regular wages is hard to resist, especially as he has his sweetheart Rose to impress and a family to support.Years later, when Rose falls pregnant to another man, his heart is shattered. As the Burma Campaign mounts, and Obi is shipped out to fight, he is haunted by the mystery of Rose's lover. When his identity comes to light, Obi's devastation leads to a tragic chain of unexpected events.In ROSE AND THE BURMA SKY, Rosanna Amaka weaves together the realities of war, the pain of first love and how following your heart might not always be the best course of action. Its gritty boy's-eye view brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power.___________'Refreshing. Vividly conveys how the historical injustice of colonialism continues to reverberate' GUARDIAN

Corporate Asset takes undercover operative Jack Taggart into the world of white-collar crime and murder. Insurance companies are being bilked out of millions of dollars. Unfortunately, he has to make a deal with a sleazier and more dangerous brand of criminal in order to get the job done.

Flussdeltas kennen wir meist aus der Vogelperspektive: als faszinierende Luftbilder von verästelten Flussarmen oder als beunruhigende Landkarten, die vom Klimawandel bedrohte Landschaften zeigen. Dieser Bildband dreht die Perspektive um: Wir begegnen den Bewohner:innen von Deltas in Brasilien, Kanada, Myanmar und Senegal auf Augenhöhe. Wir erfahren von ihrem täglichen Leben, ihren Sorgen, Hoffnungen und den Herausforderungen, denen sie begegnen, sowie ihrem Erfindungsreichtum.Anhand zahlreicher Bilder und kurzer Texte wird gezeigt, dass das Leben dieser Menschen nicht nur von abstrakten Prozessen wie Klimawandel, Wirtschaftskrisen und Bevölkerungswachstum bestimmt ist. Vielmehr sind diese Prozesse Teil von anderen - und oft wichtigeren - Dynamiken in den Deltas. Basierend auf ihren ethnographischen Forschungen erzählen die Autor:innen, wie sich koloniale Schatten, unstetes Terrain und flexible Traditionen im Alltag der Menschen widerspiegeln. Das Buch gewährt Einblick in die verschiedenen - aber oft auch ganz ähnlichen - Formen von Zusammenleben in Flussdeltas.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES"A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland- a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our globalized culture, as it was when the sun never set on the British Empire."-Los Angeles Times Book ReviewSet in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by the writer Chitra Divakaruni calls "a master storyteller."Praise for The Glass Palace"An absorbing story of a world in transition, brought to life through characters who love and suffer with equal intensity."-J. M. Coetzee"There is no denying Ghosh's command of culture and history. . . . [He] proves a writer of supreme skill and intelligence."-The Atlantic Monthly"I will never forget the young and old Rajkumar, Dolly, the Princesses, the forests of teak, the wealth that made families and wars. A wonderful novel. An incredible story."-Grace Paley"A novelist of dazzling ingenuity."-San Francisco Chronicle