The Resource Miss Burma, Charmaine Craig
Miss Burma, Charmaine Craig
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The item Miss Burma, Charmaine Craig represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Miss Burma, Charmaine Craig represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood. Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country's history. After the war, the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, whose party gains control of the country. When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people and other ethnic groups, and in doing so sets off what will become the longest-running civil war in recorded history. Benny and Khin's eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma's first beauty queen, soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her new-found fame, she is forced to reckon with her family's past, the West's ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. Based on the story of the author's mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be, and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 355 pages
- Note
- "A portion of this novel originally appeared in Narrative magazine."--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780802126450
- Label
- Miss Burma
- Title
- Miss Burma
- Statement of responsibility
- Charmaine Craig
- Subject
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- Civil war -- Burma -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Ethnic conflict -- Burma -- Fiction
- Families -- Burma -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Karen (Southeast Asian people) -- Fiction
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Political persecution -- Fiction
- Racially mixed families -- Burma -- Fiction
- Nationalism -- Fiction
- Burma -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood. Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country's history. After the war, the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, whose party gains control of the country. When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people and other ethnic groups, and in doing so sets off what will become the longest-running civil war in recorded history. Benny and Khin's eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma's first beauty queen, soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her new-found fame, she is forced to reckon with her family's past, the West's ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. Based on the story of the author's mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be, and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Craig, Charmaine
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3603.R35
- LC item number
- M57 2017
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Betrayal
- Civil war
- Ethnic conflict
- Families
- Identity (Psychology)
- Karen (Southeast Asian people)
- Nationalism
- Political persecution
- Racially mixed families
- Burma
- Label
- Miss Burma, Charmaine Craig
- Note
- "A portion of this novel originally appeared in Narrative magazine."--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 355 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802126450
- Lccn
- 2016047415
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- ocn960838462
- (OCoLC)960838462
- Label
- Miss Burma, Charmaine Craig
- Note
- "A portion of this novel originally appeared in Narrative magazine."--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 355 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802126450
- Lccn
- 2016047415
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- ocn960838462
- (OCoLC)960838462
Subject
- Civil war -- Burma -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Ethnic conflict -- Burma -- Fiction
- Families -- Burma -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Karen (Southeast Asian people) -- Fiction
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Political fiction
- Political persecution -- Fiction
- Racially mixed families -- Burma -- Fiction
- Nationalism -- Fiction
- Burma -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genre
Library Locations
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Vancouver Public Library, Central Library (Open with Limited Services - Children’s Library, Level 2 and Level 3)Borrow it350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 6B1, CA49.280188 -123.114755
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