5/18/2023 0 Comments The lost footstepsAnd on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future. It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world. Genre: Autobiography - Biography, History, Travel,ĭescription: Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions.
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