Burma Chronicles

Guy Delisle

RRP: £14.99

Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE

Publication Date : 16/04/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

From the critically acclaimed author of "Pyongyang" and "Shenzen", this is a incisive portrait of a country notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as a means of social control.

Publisher's description:

Features almsgiving rituals, daylong power-cuts and rampant heroin use in outlying regions, in Burma where catastrophic mismanagement and ironhanded rule come up against profound resilience of spirit, expatriate life ambles along, and non-governmental organisations struggle with the risk of co-option by the military junta.

ISBN: 9780224087711