The memory of a brief visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean for years. A decade after the violent suppression of an unarmed national uprising, he seized the chance to return. This is a portrayal of contemporary Burma, a country that is shot through with desperation and fear, but also blessed with beauty and courage.
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Rory MacLean was born and educated in Canada and now lives with his family in Dorset. He has won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work prize and an Arts Council Writers' Award, was twice shortlisted for the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Prize and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary award. He is also a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4. His books, including best-sellers Stalin's Nose and Under the Dragon, have challenged and invigorated travel writing, and - according to the late John Fowles - are among works that 'marvellously explain why literature still lives'. Author Katie Hickman confirmed this statement: 'Rory MacLean is one of the most strikingly original and talented travel writers of our generation'.
I cannot imagine a better book on the beauty and terror of Burma.
Rory Maclean is more than a gifted writer. He is a man whose
artistry is underpinned by a moral sensibility. Read it. Read it.
Read it.
*Fergal Keane*
Shines with an almost unbearable poignancy...a beautiful insight
into this unhappy land...a book which marvellously extends the
conventional confines of travel writing.
*The Times*
Easily the travel book of the year.
*Wanderlust*
A triumphant exploration of a country brutalised by
dictatorship.
*Independent*
I couldn't put it down. It made me cry.
*Guardian*
Such an extraordinary book...a stunner.
*Far Eastern Economic Review*
This is a timely, fluent, passionate book about Burma which ought
to be read by all who value the right of a courageous people to
their freedom.
*John Pilger*
MacLean gives an extraordinary sense of individual hopelessness and
radical disorientation under a system of organised absurdity mixed
with terror that is contemporary Burma.
*Evening Standard*
After reading Under the Dragon, one can never again see Burma's
masses as faceless hordes. MacLean shows Burma to be a country of
repression and fear, but also one of great individual kindness and
passion.
*Independent on Sunday*
This is an important book, and an essential book.
*New Internationalist*
More than a travel book, this is an impassioned plea on behalf of a
tragic nation...Beautifully written, with a powerful sense of
involvement.
*Sunday Express*
A sensitive portrayal of a people who must soon be allowed to
emerge from the brutal and senseless repression of decades. It
should be widely read.
*Country Life*
Immensely impressive.
*Magill*
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